Default date entry format in CMS fixed as mm/dd/yyyy

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Has this issue already been fixed? If so please point me to the setting!!

As far as I can see a CMS form date field displays and accepts typed dates in mm/dd/yyyy format. The problem is that many users (the majority?) habitually read/type date fields as dd/mm/yyyy.

Mistakes are inevitable.

For instance, I typed 10/6/2025 for 10 June 2025 and 10/06/2025 was displayed which looked fine. But Webflow thought it was 6 October 2025…and my post went missing.

Is there a setting/hack to customise the typing recognition/display to read/present dd/mm/yyyy?
Alternatively, if that is too hard, can the selected date be displayed unambiguously as e.g. October 6, 2025 ? or even, “10/06/2025 (October 6, 2025)”?

This would help prevent these evitable errors for non-US users.

Thanks

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Unfortunately, this issue has not been fixed and there is currently no setting available in Webflow to change the date field input format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY or to display dates in an unambiguous format.

This is a well-documented, long-standing issue that has been frustrating international users for years.

Current Status

Webflow’s date fields currently only accept typed dates in MM/DD/YYYY format Date/time field – Webflow Help Center, and users commonly bypass the dropdown calendar and enter date values manually for speed, which they’ll naturally do in their native date format, often resulting in incorrect dates when the format is ambiguous UK/EU date format (DD/MM/YYYY) for the collection | Webflow Wishlist.

Community Requests

There are multiple active feature requests on Webflow’s wishlist:

Recent Updates

Despite Webflow’s release of Localization features in 2023, the localization solution focuses on language translation and doesn’t address date format localization Localize content and styles – Webflow Help Center.

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Thanks for your reply. I thought as much.

I read the previous posts, but they were not unambiguously addressing the CMS form date entry/display. Many were given solutions for on-page date content formatting.

So I posted intending to be clear that (a) this was a CMS data entry usability bug, and (b) there is an intuitively simple fix, i.e. add the text " (Month dd, yyyy)" to the displayed numeric value.

Undoubtedly non-English speakers would prefer their own local formats, but this simple change would be a step in the right direction to help us avoid production errors.