change date format?

[t4nu]

Hi,
Is there a way to change the date format that displayed when date input is required?
Thanks in advance for the help.

[Jon]

The format of date fields is controlled by the language the form is running with, or more accurately the formatting language associated with the running language. The idea is that you can have multiple users using different languages and the dates are displayed appropriately. You can change the language, but you probably don't want to do this. Other than that, you can't use a field of type DATE and change the display format e.g. you can't change it to 11th Jan 2016. You could change the field type to CHAR and then display the date any way you like, but then it couldn't be used as an input field. The only other solution would be to use something like jQuery, but would be much more work.

[t4nu]

Hi Jon,
thanks for the information.
It's not what I want, but at least I know the reason.

The format of date fields is controlled by the language the form is running with, or more accurately the formatting language associated with the running language. The idea is that you can have multiple users using different languages and the dates are displayed appropriately. You can change the language, but you probably don't want to do this. Other than that, you can't use a field of type DATE and change the display format e.g. you can't change it to 11th Jan 2016. You could change the field type to CHAR and then display the date any way you like, but then it couldn't be used as an input field. The only other solution would be to use something like jQuery, but would be much more work.