Customisable Date and Time

!Matt
Currently, the only way to change date and time display (between 12h/24h, or DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY) is to change the language, and you can either have 24h and DD/MM or 12h and MM/DD. I propose that this becomes customisable, so for those who prefer to use 24h and MM/DD can do so, and vice-versa, with 12h and DD/MM. This would allow greater customisation and a more personal feel to the user, as well as allowing for region date/time formats that may not fit into the current US or UK format.
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  • noMAD

    Yes, lack of basic customization is disappointing to say at least.

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  • Des Cuddlebat

    I hope iso 8601 would work in this!

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  • TheMightyBlob

    It should be customizable as in Windows itself. I'm using English but ISO-date (YYYY-MM-DD).

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  • Toffee the Elstiq

    Bump. This would be great.

    10
  • MrLee

    Agreed. maybe I'm weird, but I'd like to be able to have English language, American style date format when written out, i.e. August 10, 2019, but dd/mm/yyyy (or even yyyy-mm-dd) when on short format dates, and 24 hour clock.

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  • Pale Dolphin

    Honestly, not everyone that speaks English is using mm/dd/yyyy format, come on, guys, add that customization of date format already!

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  • caboosetp

    Bumping this because it would greatly help with server moderation. I'd absolutely love to be able to show my date in yyyy-mm-dd

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  • Dausora

    God knows why they haven’t done this yet. Whole-heartedly agree, this needs to be a thing. I don’t want to change to English US to have the time format I want, and I don’t want the date format used in it, either.

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  • doom

    It must be done. No question about it.

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  • Lyrialtus

    Totally agree. This is a reasonable feature request. And yes, ISO 8601 should be an option too.

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  • ManualCookie

    Hi, I like my UI in English, but I don't want the US-style date-time format.

    Having an ability to customize it would be great! I feel this is more a necessity than an extra thing that should be asked for by the community.

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  • Nemesis306

    manualcookie, you can switch to English (UK). It's English again, but there's no PM or AM and the date format is DD/MM/YYYY.

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  • ManualCookie

    Thank you Nemesis306, I wasn't aware of it!

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  • julian

    That's what I'm using too, but unfortunately it makes the spell checker UK english too, which is annoying.

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  • Webber

    Bump. Date customizability would be a valuable feature. ISO 8601 should definitely be made available to users.

    Thank you, Discord support team!

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  • Bender

    I agree with julian here. While changing the time and date format is certainly possible by changing from US to UK, I don't want American English spellings to be corrected. (Even worse when I use generally AE words in the same sentences - that just looks horrible.)

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  • Togusa
    • Edited

    Discord is generally poor at response times (or any response at all for these user-pacification threads) and for making sensible UI improvements and fixes.  I don't think they have more than one or two full-time developers on staff, if that.

     

    Sadly, we're bound to wait for a long time on this issue, just like we'll have to wait for them to fix the recently-broken PgUp / PgDn functionality.

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  • KougaSarth

    How is this still a thing? In australia we use DDMM and 12hr time.. And it's 1 or the other

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  • my_hat_stinks

    This is badly needed, I have no idea why language and date format are coupled in the first place. Or why it doesn't just default to the system format.

    I exclusively use ISO format but for some reason Discord has no option for it.

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  • JustAnotherEngineer

    Please add this, it's been two years, I don't see how it's that big of a deal to add something this simple.

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  • Dust

    Joining the thread. Devs - please give us a bunch of date-time formats.

    3
  • Kroy

    Bumping again. This shouldn’t be linked to region since presumably it’s an adjustment on rendering.

    3
  • halfbit

    Agreed. This is a strange and naive lack of capability, given that other platforms I use have supported custom date formats for years.

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  • VavavoomX

    I am a developer and I am Turkish. I started to use Windows 10 in English after an error occurred on one of my projects dependencies (which is a date manipulation library) because of my system language. It was developer of package's fault to use the wrong character encoding and make the package inaccessible to use for Turkey's time zone based operations.

    And here today, I am unable to use Discord in my country's date format, even though my Windows date format is in my country's date format.

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  • Sun

    Yes we definitely need ISO8601 as an option along with 24 hour time notation regardless of the language selection.  

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  • Harain

    hard to believe this actually has to be asked for by so many people...

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  • 3 plat 3

    It's been 2 years and it still isn't added??? please add this!

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  • philihp

    YYYY-MM-DD is the standard date format of Canada. Please add an "English, CA" language. I've cancelled my Nitro subscription until this is done, because it's just too confusing and ambiguous to figure out which month 03-02-2021 is in.

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  • latenightmama

    Please!!! I'd prefer 12H time

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  • Adelscott

    @kayleigh.st you already have 12H time.

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