Changing format of date field
Hello everybody,
I am having a bit of trouble with the date format of documents. I am stuck with "m d y" when I would like to have "d m y". What I am talking about is neither the "date added" or "modified" fields, but the general "date" which every Zotero item has.
Thi screenshot should show what I mean.
https://i.ibb.co/MccVZxf/screen1.jpg
One can actually see that the "accessed", "date added" and "modified" fields all show the right formatting.
I have read the forums and found two promising threads. However, they did not solve my problem. I link them here as a reference.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6797/zotero-appearance-how-do-i-change-date-format-in-date-added
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/67032/change-date-format-in-zotero-5
The locale of my pc is set to the United Kingdom.
I changed the general.useragent.locale to "en-GB" and the intl.locale.matchOS to false.
https://i.ibb.co/j45Nyzv/screen2.jpg
Entering "new Date().toLocaleDateString()" in Firefox's Web Console gives me a "m d y" which is consistent with the problem I have in Zotero. I am not sure whether this is relevant or the link between these two problems only existed when Zotero wasn't standalone.
Any ideas on what to do?
I am having a bit of trouble with the date format of documents. I am stuck with "m d y" when I would like to have "d m y". What I am talking about is neither the "date added" or "modified" fields, but the general "date" which every Zotero item has.
Thi screenshot should show what I mean.
https://i.ibb.co/MccVZxf/screen1.jpg
One can actually see that the "accessed", "date added" and "modified" fields all show the right formatting.
I have read the forums and found two promising threads. However, they did not solve my problem. I link them here as a reference.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6797/zotero-appearance-how-do-i-change-date-format-in-date-added
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/67032/change-date-format-in-zotero-5
The locale of my pc is set to the United Kingdom.
I changed the general.useragent.locale to "en-GB" and the intl.locale.matchOS to false.
https://i.ibb.co/j45Nyzv/screen2.jpg
Entering "new Date().toLocaleDateString()" in Firefox's Web Console gives me a "m d y" which is consistent with the problem I have in Zotero. I am not sure whether this is relevant or the link between these two problems only existed when Zotero wasn't standalone.
Any ideas on what to do?
I installed the beta and I confirm the format problem has been solved!
Thanks a lot for the quick fix.
Edit>Preferences>Advanced, changed language from 'automatic English' to 'English (UK)')
Edit>Preferences>Advanced, changed language from 'automatic English' to 'English (UK)'
solved my problem in 2023 (version 6.0.20)