Is there any way to change input type=“date” format?

Question

I\'m working with HTML5 elements on my webpage. By default input type=\"date\" shows date as YYYY-MM-DD.

The question is, is it possible t

Answer 1

As said, the is not fully implemented in most browsers, so let's talk about webkit like browsers (chrome).

Using linux, you can change it by changing the environment variable LANG, LC_TIME don't seems to work(for me at least).

You can type locale in a terminal to see your current values. I think the same concept can be applied to IOS.

eg: Using:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /opt/google/chrome/chrome

The date is showed as mm/dd/yyyy

Using:

LANG=pt_BR /opt/google/chrome/chrome

The date is showed as dd/mm/yyyy

You can use http://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/pt_BR/ (change pt_BR by your locale) to create you own custom locale and format your dates as you want.

A nice more advanced reference on how change default system date is: https://ccollins.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu/ and https://askubuntu.com/questions/21316/how-can-i-customize-a-system-locale

You can see you real current date format using date:

$ date +%x
01-06-2015

But as LC_TIME and d_fmt seems to be rejected by chrome ( and I think it's a bug in webkit or chrome ), sadly it don't work. :'(

So, unfortunately the response, is IF LANG environment variable do not solve your problem, there is no way yet.