Monica: Feature Request: Better date formatting

[AdamIsrael]

It's not immediately clear, when entering a date, that it's formatted as DD/MM/YYYY.

• Allow the user to choose their default date format, i.e., MM/DD/YYYY or DD MMM YYYY.
• Improve the date input UI to make it more intuitive.

[errogaht]

Hello! i can code to switch date format. I need to known - somebody is not make this thing too.
@djaiss Please tell me that i can implement date format. i think this way https://goo.gl/Aoj2FJ may be you can say something about, because im not detailed uderstand whole app, may be there is many date formats ind we need more than 1 input for date format

[Nebucatnetzer]

It would probably make sense to allow multiple formats.
E.g. MM/DD/YYY, MM.DD.YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, etc

[djaiss]

@errogaht that'd be awesome. It might be tricky because I'm using the default HTML5 datepicker, but if we can find something simple, let's do it!

[djaiss]

We've switched away from the default HTML5 datepicker in 1.4.0 for

• birthdates
• first met date
• deceased date

We'll have to change it for reminders, activities as well.

[pqhf5kd]

Taking this a little further, it would be nice to be able to choose between US/EU formats in the 'Account settings', next to 'Currency' and 'Temperature scale'. It's surprisingly frustrating entering dates 'the wrong way'.

[djaiss]

This is something we should do indeed.

[asbiin]

Date are now right formatted.