Change bullet hover: last edited date format from US to ISO8601

This is not critical. But when I hover over a bullet point to view the last edited/created date, it is in US format: mm/dd/yyyy. For me (and probably any non-US people) this is mildly annoying.

Iā€™m not proposing to change it to European format dd/mm/yyyy but instead to use the amazing and superior ISO 8601 format: yyyy-mm-dd

I could never explain this as well as XKCD:

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I think making it customizable would cover your request. Is that correct?

Date format is always a convention and I donā€™t think there exists the absolutely superior format. Thatā€™s why we offer the custom date format option.

Yes, that would indeed cover my request.

But itā€™s a lot more work than changing the current format to ISO.
As to superiority: If you sort the date format as strings, ISO 8601 is the only one that would sort chronologically correct. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Weā€™d rather not change it twice if we eventually want to make it fully customizable. Happy to do it since the custom version doesnā€™t take much more effort.

The biggest problem to sort out is that if the user were to go for the ā€œrelativeā€ date format, these strings need to be updated constantly. It can be a performance hit; I hope it wonā€™t be too bad.