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Former Member
4 years agoWrong date/time format MacOS 12.3
when viewing an item in 1Password, at the bottom of the right hand panel that shows the details of the item, the date format does not match the system date format.
My system is set to dd/mm/yyyy ...
snozdop
4 years agoSuper Contributor
I've just noticed this date issue with the modified and created text at the bottom of each item:
I look at this and it looks as though it was modified and created on 4th October 2022 - which is in the future.
Although it requires extra thought (i.e. "Hang on, it's not October yet - oh right, it must mean 10th April, not 4th October") for that date I can tell it's wrong, but if the date was 4/1/2022, how do I know that it's supposed to be 1st April not 4th January if it doesn't stick to any specified format?
It's also not consistent with the date fields added to the item itself. Those are in the correct format for my country. i.e. dd/mm/yyyy so obviously the code does exist in 1PW to format dates correctly as its used elsewhere.
However, even the formatting of the dates is inconsistent. In the date field the month number is two digits (04) whereas in the created text it is 1 digit.
It's also inconsistent (again and differently) with the way the modified and created are shown in the web interface:
It's like the teams writing these various elements of the 1PW app and web UI don't talk to each other to define a few standards before starting work. Even the modified label is different!
It can't even be argued that the format used in the modified and created text is the format used by most people, since pretty much only the USA puts the month before the day. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
I'd love to know if this poses a particular problem for your workflow, or in what way it interferes with your app experience.
For me it is unnecessary friction and often confusion and I hate inconsistencies. Rather than the date format being the same everywhere and what I expect for my location, I have to consciously consider (and try to remember) which way round the particular date I'm looking at is, and if I remember it's the wrong way round, I have to mentally swap the digits around to process it further.
Even if the modified and created dates showed the month in short or long text form (Oct or October) it would help, as I'd instantly be able to determine what the date is for those ambiguous dates where the day is 12 or less.
For example: 4/10/2022 shown as April 10 2022