Getting started with 1Password for your growing team, or refining your setup? Our Secured Success quickstart guide is for you.
Forum Discussion
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
272 Replies
Replies have been turned off for this discussion
How can this still be an issue in 2024?
Electron
Oh. Right. 🤦
After changing my language to English (UK) the date format is fixed. Finally!
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Thanks everyone, I've passed all of your comments and reports to the team. Thank you for hanging in there while the team continues the work to bring complete consistency to dates in 1Password 8.
-Dave
Also, it would be perfect to align all dates with the same format (for example the short one on macOS), instead of having 1 format for passkey date, 1 another format for field date, 1 another format for created date... Example:
1P_Dave I understand the team efforts to handle dates but an option in setting might help. Some prefer DDMMYYYY while others might prefer DDMMMYYYY or MMDDYYYY. Similarly, for time it may be OK for some to use 12hr and others will prefer 24hr. It should take system setting but if not then user should be able to override in settings. It helps if people move to other country for work or have personal preference as well as keep it consistent across platforms.
Confirming the issue in Mac OS. Date is set to DD.MM.YYYY, 1pass shows as MM.DD.YY.
When I'm viewing a card the date format is MM/DD/YY. When I edit the same, it is DD/MM/YYYY. Why? This is on Mac.
On iPhone it's viewing a card the date format is MM/DD/YY. When I edit the same, it is DD MMM YYYY.
On Android it's viewing a card the date format is YYYY-MM-DD. When I edit the same, it is DD/MM/YYYY.
I fail to understand this different formats on different operating systems.
- 1P_Dave
Hello folks,
The change in version 8.10.28 is part of our development team's larger efforts to improve how dates are handled in the 1Password apps on all platforms. This particular update only applies these changes to created and modified dates as noted in the release notes:
Created and modified dates for items are now formatted according to your operating system’s language settings and standards specified by the Unicode Consortium.
The issue to fix date formatting for things like Passport item expiry dates is still open with our development team.
-Dave
why are we relying on the system date format? Why can't 1password give the formats directly?
