Date of birth format

Using farmOS
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ive changed the date format in config->regional_date & time
and date views to {j,l} , M ,Y .
But the date of birth in the individual animal asset is still month, day, year
Can i change it from the colonial :cowboy_hat_face: to the old-world format :guardsman: ?

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Hi @grolma - thanks for asking. We actually have an old feature request for this:

For what it’s worth, in farmOS 2.x we are standardizing on the yyyy-mm-dd format for all dates displayed in farmOS UI, and the API standardizes on ISO 8601 format.

In farmOS 1.x (which I assume you are using), it is possible to change the formats, but it requires changing things in a number of different places. It sounds like you found the “main” one, but unfortunately that doesn’t get used everywhere like it should.

But the date of birth in the individual animal asset is still month, day, year

If you’d like to override the farmOS config for this specifically, enable the Field UI module (in /admin/modules), then go to /admin/config/farm/asset-types/manage/animal/display. Find the “Date of birth” in that list, and click the little gear icon to the right of it. This will give you options to customize how the date is displayed.

Hope that helps!