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Date format is incorrect in 1Password for Mac
Hi, greetings from the UK.
I noticed that the date / time format for created / modified uses North American format (ie. back to front for us Brits).
Could this be changed to use the locale of the user please?
Many thanks.
1Password Version: 8.7.1
Extension Version: 2.3.5
OS Version: macOS 12.4
Browser:_ Firefox 101.0
Hello folks,
Our developers have released improvements to how 1Password handles date formatting in the latest version of the 1Password desktop app (8.10.80). You can read more here: Improved date formatting in the 1Password desktop app
If you still see an issue with version 8.10.80 (or later) then please post a screenshot of what you see in the 1Password app and your current operating system region/date settings in the new thread. I'll close this old thread in order to keep the conversation in one place.
-Dave
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It's also still broken for macOS 14.3.1. My passport dates are still displayed in US format, despite my system settings. Sigh. Hard to believe that this problem has persisted so long.
1P_Dave, the new wording is even more confusing now as it's unclear whether "your operating system's language settings" includes regional/locale formatting settings or not. I think most users would assume so, but it seems like in this case it's not.
If I understand you correctly, the development team acknowledges that currently date/time formatting is wrongly derived from the interface language of the operating system, cleared some stuff up internally in 8.10.28, and will fix this in a future release by adopting the regional/locale formatting settings of the operating system?
My passport expiry dates reverted to the wrong format in iOS, again.
It’s currently too dangerous for me to use 1Pass for storing/retrieving my passport data. If 1Pass is having such trouble reliably retrieving system preferences then why not have an override in 1Pass settings where I can explicitly set YYYY-MM-DD?
Perhaps I, the user, should stop using date/time field types and covert the fields to text?
- 1P_Dave
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fok and vishalsheth
I'm sorry for the confusion, I've flagged this to the team and the release note has been updated:
Created and modified dates for items are now formatted according to your operating system’s language settings and standards specified by the Unicode Consortium.
This is part of the work being done by our development team to improve how dates are handled in 1Password but there is more work to be done. Thank you for pinging me so that we could get the note corrected.
-Dave
I don’t understand this, why is the team looking to have date as per the system only? Just ask it to pickup details and show your format with all possible options? On my Mac if I choose India then I don’t get format DDMMMYYYY. This is what I want to avoid any kind of confusion or error with date. The month has to be in words only.
1P_Dave I just noticed that the release notes for 8.10.28 for both macOS and Windows state:
"The language and date formatting for item creation and modification dates now respect your operating system’s locale settings."
They still don't. I see no change in behavior on both macOS and Windows. Both systems are set to English (US) and locale is set to German:
macOS 14.4:
Windows 11 Pro 23H2:
pixelmachine: Yes, it would be nice if they could deprecate Electron and move to a native UI, at the least with code shared with the iOS version.
Good find paulgrav
Perhaps 1Password devs could fix the Electron bug and fix a bunch of apps? That's supposed to be benefit and the beauty of Open Source software.
After changing my primary language from 'English' to 'English (UK)' (region Netherlands) in MacOS System Settings, I can confirm the date representation changed from 'American' to 'British'.
