Datetime format

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El O

• February 19, 2021 07:47

So with new add date feature, is it possible in future to set the format of date and time? For example when adding "now" it adds Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:43am Would be great if I could set 19.02.2021 10:43, with 24h format

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • February 19, 2021 14:59

  It would also be amazing to be able to view dates in standard ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) instead of how they are currently displayed now in text, which takes a lot of characters. Though, the one I personally really need is the abbreviated 6-digit version of ISO used commonly used for document names prefix which is (YYMMDD) 2ch,2ch,2ch without any character separating the terms.

  Friday, February 19, 2021 (Text)   →   2021-02-19 (ISO)  →   210219 (ISOshort)

  The last 6-digit date coding is optimal for prefixing file names in chronological order without taking up too much space on the documents name, such as:

  201231-photos  ← (photos of the last day of the past year)

  210101-journal  ← (Journal for the first day of this year)

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • April 08, 2021 16:44

  Hi people! Sorry if this thread had been overlooked. We've mentioned in several places that date formatting options are going to be created :-). It's a matter of time...

   

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  Alfred Peters

  • April 06, 2021 23:34

  Honestly, I wish the whole world worked on ISO. As an American who grew up overseas I was flabbergasted that MM/DD/YYYY was even a thing. It makes zero sense. At least do DD/MM/YYYY... ISO is still best and critical for the computer age because if it's instant, incredibly easy auto-sorting nature.

  +1000

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  Brian Clements-Tiberio

  • February 26, 2021 17:42

  Big +1 for me here. Something in settings to allow for custom format would be wonderful. I also do ISO format for my dates.

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  oleg

  • March 04, 2021 20:02
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  YYYY-MM-DD everywhere since 2013-08-02, works in any file system

  cannot upvote this enough

   

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  aquadark

  • February 28, 2022 20:56
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  Well, let's pray this finally gets sorted... as it's the last day of February :)
  It's been 2+ years since the date feature was introduced and I am pretty sure the date format selection is one of the most requested features...

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  jkontos

  • January 16, 2022 17:30

  Any news?

   

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 28, 2022 11:54

  Hi folks,

  I've really pushed the team for this over the last couple of weeks and it looks like we may have this scheduled to work on in a couple of weeks and be out by the end of February. If not, I think it may be safe to say about 6-7 weeks after the end of February when we do another iteration of some of the smaller feature requests. Date formatting was slated to be looked at in a growing bundle of date-related items, but I've singled this one out and have asked that it be dealt with as an isolated feature (which it is not, really, because it requires decision making for several other features without actually building those features and getting back to that at a later time.)

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  Henk Schets

  • January 26, 2022 09:24

  please make this a priority :-)

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 27, 2022 18:18

  Hi Henk,

  I have nagged the developers about this very recently. You are not alone in your request. I get bombarded with this well-deserving request every day at the help desk and elsewhere... and I have prompted the team. It seems that they want to bundle this together with several other date-related feature requests and tackle everything in the same iteration.

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  Henk Schets

  • January 28, 2022 10:43

  Thank you Frank, much appreciated!

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  Julian Gieseke

  • March 27, 2023 19:50
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  Any update on this? desperately waiting for "better" (more European) date formats... 😇
  
  edit: ended up dropping workflowy for this reason…

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  Seyee

  • May 07, 2022 06:49

  please make this a priority :-)

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  Xavier Ehret

  • November 13, 2022 14:27

  Any news on this ? its driving me crazy

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  Luigi Bonini

  • April 06, 2021 19:55

  I would suggest also changing the format to other systems and languages (es. Italian: instead of "Wed, April 7, 2021" something like "Merc 7 aprile 2021".

   

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • March 01, 2022 16:44

  > I am pretty sure the date format selection is one of the most requested features...

  Indeed, it is. We are wanting to include this with several other date-related features when we re-focus on this.

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  aquadark

  • March 27, 2023 12:35

  🙄

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  Jeffrey T. Grater

  • April 04, 2023 15:08

  @Frank, it seemed so hopeful a year ago. Where do we stand with the ability to change dates?

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