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Date format "DD.MM.YYYY"

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#2,037 opened on Jan 7, 2026

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Description

Describe the problem to be solved

Currently, the date formats offered have a lot of North American "month first" formats and are lacking European and African and South American "day first" formats:

Especially, the often used "DD.MM.YYYY" is missing (used at least in Germany and central European countries)

It would be great to have this added. Bonus points for selecting the "correct default display" according to the selected locale in Settings.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country

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Research direction
Find the date format list in the codebase, likely in a settings or localization module, and add 'DD.MM.YYYY' format. Check how locale based default format is selected and consider implementing that as a bonus.
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frontend
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2
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