The global date format of our WordPress website is set to j. F Y (= 22. November 2020).
Nevertheless, date input fields created with Toolset Forms are displaying the date as November 22, 2020.
As far as I learned from other forum entries, I cannot format a single date field by adding a format attribute like this:
[cred_field field="eintrittsdatum" force_type="field" class="form-control" output="bootstrap" format=" j. F Y"]
So how can I display the date in the proper format?
Hello, Forms date fields currently support only the following formats:
F j, Y = December 23, 2011
Y/m/d = 2018/12/24
m/d/Y = 12/24/2018
d/m/Y = 24/12/2018
j F Y = 24 December 2018
The closest one to your requirements appears to be j F Y. If you choose one of these formats in Settings > Global, it will be used for the date field. Other formats are not currently supported in Forms, but are supported when displaying the date on the front-end of the site after the post is submitted with Forms. You may be able to use custom code to specify your own date format using the jQuery datepicker API, but support for implementing other formats is not available here in the forums as this code falls outside the scope of our support policy.
http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-dateFormat
https://toolset.com/toolset-support-policy
Another ticket with some unsupported code provided by another User might help you create your own custom solution:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/cred-datepicker-default-format/
Again, this is custom code that is unsupported here in the forums and may or may not work for your needs.
Thank you for clarifying this.
For obvious reasons I cannot change the global settings of my site to an inappropriate date format just to come a bit closer to what the date picker supports in one single input field.
Coding my own solution is unfortunately beyond my skills. I would expect that Toolset supports all standard date formats with its date picker out of the box.
