Why can't I choose an international date format with English as my language?

[motorcycledata]

It appears that one cannot set the date format, but that it depends on the language. Even setting UK English forces m/d/yy.

Looking in this forum, it is suggested to change it in settings, but there isn't that option. anymore.

Surely a productivity tool can't expect people to ditch the core of their language.

I hope this option comes available soon.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Both of those are non-standard "fields" in JIRA - if you had an off-the-shelf installation, you would not see them.

I suspect someone has used the JIRA Toolkit "message fields" to add informational boxes to some of your screens (especially as there's no such thing as "sub component(s)" in JIRA and it looks like you're using labels to try to do it)

These leak into the "move issue" screen because JIRA sees them as editable fields.  They don't actually have an editable area, but they have to be shown as editable or they won't appear where you need them.  The "move issue" process simply renders ALL "editable" fields here, and that's why they're appearing.

To address the specific fields you're getting

1. "move this to the top" - rename the message field so that it falls above the others alphabetically (this won't affect the display or where it appears on screen, just move it to the top of move and bulk-edit field lists)
2. This will always be there, unless you delete the field completely.  You can't "fix" this.

[Mayank Srivastava]

Hey Nic,

Appreciate the response! I'm not clear about the point 1.. Could you please elaborate a bit?

The field name that we are using is 'Confirm Issue Type IMPROVEMENT'. Do you want me to change the field name or the content inside the field ? Here is the field:

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[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sorry, I was not very clear there. Definitely field name. You can test it in a very obvious but ugly way by renaming the field from "Confirm Issue Type IMPROVEMENT" to "aaa Confirm Issue Type IMPROVEMENT". The aaa should force it to the top of the list. When you see that working, you can swap the aaa for a simple space or other ascii character lower than "a"

[Mayank Srivastava]

Hey Nicc,
That didn't help. 

Do I need to reindex after making the above change?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, you only need to reindex on changes of issue data, this is a field setup thing. It seems to have worked ok on the dev Jira I've just tested it on - my message appears as the first field on issue move. So I'm not sure.