Date Settings

Overview

The date settings allow to define a date format with custom date elements and custom separators for

1. entering, parsing, and displaying dates in a date text field.
2. displaying dates in a date string.
3. displaying date elements in date select controls.

Month names (mmmm or mmm), can be localized here. Unicode is supported.

The initial date format is yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601).

Localization

Localization can be done here. Currently, the date settings of 20 countries are available.

A missing locale can be created by changing an existing locale. A click on the "mmmm …" button opens the below dialog that allows to replace the grayed default long month names with those of the missing locale.

There is also a dialog to change the default "mmm …" short month names. A third dialog is available to localize the datepicker's days of the week. Both the days of the week and the first day of week can be specified.

Customization

The below NCSA common long date format was assembled first by setting the two-digit day format as first date component, and then by entering a slash as first date separator. The below options menu shows the date format options with the short-names month format as the selected menu option. Another slash as second date separator and the long year format complete the NCSA date format.

The below Spanish date format was reproduced analogously after a click on the "ES" button in the Locale dialog.

Available Locales.

Chinese date format mm月dd日yyyy年. It uses the separators month 月, day 日, and year 年.

Czech date format (search term: formát data).

Dutch date format (search term: datumweergave).

French date format (search term: format de date français).

Hungarian date formats (search term: dátum formátum magyar).

Italian date format (search term: formato data italiano).

Latvian date format (search term: datos formatos).

Norwegian date format (search term: norsk datoformat).

Polish date formats (search terms: polsky format daty / PN-90/N-01204 Polskie Normy).

Portuguese date format (search term: formato de data Portugués).

Romanian date format (search term: format dată).

Russian date format (search term: Формат даты).

Swedish date format (search term: datumformat).

UK date format.

US date format.