How do I set the date formatting preferences for me personally?

[j.reed]

My company's instance of Jira uses a default formatting of dd.MM.yyyy which is expected in Europe (found this under Cog-> System -> User Interface -> Look and Feel). This is also the format that I would want, but for some reason when I see dates (like when booking work time on tickets) I get the US formatting MM/dd/yyyy which I do not want.

There doesn't seem to be, or I cannot find a specific user based preference to change to bring me in line with the company default settings. It would be nice if this were a user preference and not hide it under tons of different configuration options. It's so annoying.

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @j.reed 

I have experienced that the preference setting change some times  takes a bit of time to reflect.

Can you check again (may be after 10m) on the fields after changing the language to English UK?

[j.reed]

No there was no change even days after I changed the language to English UK.

[Chethan GR]

Hi @j.reed ,

It depends on your preferred language on your profile. Please refer to https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/how-do-date-and-time-formats-work-in-the-issue-view/ for more details.

Hope this helps.

[j.reed]

Sadly it does not appear to be so. I changed my language from English US to English UK and the date format is still in the US format. So I think Atlassian needs to do more work in providing better preferences for users.