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Because date formats don’t already spark enough debate, I’ll share my thoughts on the date format of the new Timeline widget:

 

I am confused and saddened by this. Miro already used yyyy-mm-dd with Cards, and that was the only other native Miro object with a structured date field. So, there was only one format, but now there are two.

And on top of that, the date format is more ambiguous as mm.dd.yyyy commonly used, so now extra cognitive load by forcing the user to have to question the date format (with yyyy-mm-dd, there should be less-to-no questioning as yyyy-mm-dd is not a standard date format).

On top of all of this, there is no placeholder text for the date field, nor any sort of help text to indicate the format that is being displayed, e.g.:

  • is 05.03.2024 May 3 or March 5?

As per the title of this wish list post, please change the Timeline widget’s date fields to yyyy-mm-dd, i.e., consistent with Cards.

I have the same issue. the date picker is DD/MM/YYYY and in the US we use MM/DD/YYYY. Is there an option to change the format? 

Agree with @Robert Johnson. An alternate option is to have have the ability to set date format as a MIRO admin so it can use that format in cards or timeline? 

@Kevin Kinisky I disagree that this should be set by Miro admin, because different date formats are used around the world. Forcing a US-centric format when working in a global company isn't the right approach. 

 

That being said, it does need to be configurable at least by the user.

This could be at the user level as a locale setting, but most users will go with whatever the default is I would assume. What’s more important in the screenshot you showed above is that we get the ability in timeline to do quarters.

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