Ability to globally force date format to dd/mm/yyyy for your webform no matter users location

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Matthew Snell

• April 20, 2020 11:09

Ability to globally force date format to dd/mm/yyyy for your webform no matter users location

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  Dana P

  • April 30, 2020 13:11

  Hi Matthew,

  Thank you for contacting us here!

  This is an excellent suggestion, let me add this as an item to our feature request. We are looking for ways to improve the platform and to meet member's needs.

  You may follow feature enhancements here:
  https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200069188-Feature-Requests and updates on our blog site, here https://www.sharefile.com/blog/category/podio/

  All the best,
  Dana - Podio

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  Matthew Snell

  • May 05, 2020 08:56
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  Thank you for logging this as a feature request, but it seems this has been requested MANY times before. Why has this not been acted upon?

  Is there an underlying issue that prevents its implementation?

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  Matthew Snell

  • November 19, 2020 11:19

  Hi,

  Thanks for passing on this improvement suggestion.

  Is there any feedback or progress on this item?

  I'm not the first person to request this, it seems to be suggested regularly by memebers indicating it would be apprecitated by the users.

  Let me know

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  Dana P

  • November 19, 2020 15:55

  Hi Matthew,

  My apologies, I have included this request with our feature enhancements. 

   

  As of today, we do not have any updates as to when this feature would actually go live. 

   

  Best,

  Dana - Podio

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  Karey Kumli

  • February 11, 2021 17:54

  I was under the impression that date format is user selected? And thus converted automatically? If not, why not?

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  Matthew Snell

  • February 14, 2021 10:32

  As I understand it, the date format is pickup from the users browser settings. Which would work fine, except many people who are not computer literate do not make to conscious effort to set their language and location correctly which means the date gets displayed differently to what they expect. For example, if you buy a Microsoft Windows computer, it will default to English (US) for spelling and date (mm/dd/yyyy) formats, no matter if you are located in the UK and use more logical date (dd/mm/yyyy) format. This causes problems when users are interacting with our forms (which is their fault) but ultimately not helpful when collecting data.
  The ability to force it to use a particular date format is an essential feature in my opinion and had been requested many times before. I'm surprised it's not been implemented.

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  Matthew Snell

  • May 11, 2021 12:33

  Hi

  Its been a year since I first raised this issue - its its been raised long before that by others using Podio.

  Is there any update on this request.... surely this isn't a very complicated feature to add??!?!?!

  Let me know becasue I feel this is an essential requirement to collecting reliable data from unreliable humans.

  Thanks

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