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

Question

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.

j.reed · Answer

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

Fazila Ashraf · Answer

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 · Answer

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.