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

Question

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 :(

Michael Green_am0a50 · Answer

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)' ???

Michael Green_am0a50 · Answer

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)' ???

Rik de Valk (Brainboss) · Answer

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