How do I get Confluence to let me enter dates in DD/MM/YYYY format

[Michael Green]

I am trying to enter the 1st of December 2026 into a Confluence page.  However despite all my browser and Confluence settings being set to DD/MM/YYYY its still interpreting the text I type as American format i.e. NOT the format that the rest of the world uses.

Why ?

And ironic given Atlassian is an AUSTRALIAN company ... that they don't setup with DD/MM/YYYY 'out of the box' for Australia or the Rest of the world who also use DD/MM/YYYY :(

[Rik de Valk _Brainboss_]

Hi @Michael Green , 

As a matter of fact, at this moment the date format settings for Confluence do not affect the Date picker macro. The macro only considers your Atlassian profile preference settings. 

See this answer from an Atlassian team member on a similar question: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-questions/Confluence-date-picker-format/qaa-p/683374#M91572 

Have a nice day!

Rik 

[Michael Green]

The ONLY thing that seem to work was changing the language on my Atlassian profile to 'English (UK)' even though I'm not in the UK

https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/account-preferences

Why doesn't a product developed by an Australian company have 'English (Australia)' ???

[Vronik]

Hi

Look at this information, maybe can help you

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/configure-time-and-date-formats/

Regards

[Michael Green]

Nope that didn't work.

The ONLY thing that seem to work was changing the language on my Atlassian profile to 'English (UK)' even though I'm not in the UK

https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/account-preferences

Why doesn't a product developed by an Australian company have 'English (Australia)' ???