Localization in date macro broken?

Question

We are using confluence in an international company and noticed, that the localization of the date macro seems broken.

Create a page, enter // for the date macro, format displayed is mm-dd-yyyy

Click on a date, the format changes to 20 Dec 2017 (English locale)

Finish editing the page, Confluence switches to view mode and voila, German date format (20 Dez 2017)

Is there a way to prevent this extremely annoying behaviour? We would prefer ISO-Format (year, month, day 2017-12-20) or at least a consistent format.

This happens for my client (German Windows locale, English Confluence locale, Server German locale) as well als for other Clients (e.g. English Windows, English confluence, German server).

Heiko Treuner · Answer

Hi Christian,

we have the same Problem how did u solve it?

Regards,

Heiko

Shannon S · Answer

Thank you, Christian.

I am still unable to replicate this myself so I have sent it to the Confluence Server team. They can obtain more information from you about your server there and will be able to help solve the issue.

Once your issue is resolved through support please feel free to post the answer here so other users can learn what the problem was.

Regards,
Shannon

ChristianWaidner · Answer

Hi Shannon!

I'm running Confluence 6.5.0 server.

Thanks for investigating.

Christian