Future Consideration

Date formatting

Related products:Lucidchart

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 20, 2025
9 replies
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The date format for “modified” when viewing documents is in the US mm/dd/yyyy format; there should be an option to either personalise this, or the date format should be taken from regional settings.

The dd/mm/yyyy format is by far the most commonly used across the globe.

Pinned Reply By Ambar D

Hi @craigroch, thank you so much for this feedback! I can certainly understand why this would be very helpful. In an effort to consolidate and properly capture the popularity of the request, I am merging this post with the one below.

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote the post below and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within the thread below.

For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @craigroch, thank you so much for this feedback! I can certainly understand why this would be very helpful. In an effort to consolidate and properly capture the popularity of the request, I am merging this post with the one below.

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote the post below and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within the thread below.

For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

Ambar D

Lucid community team

This idea has been merged into the one below.

All the votes from this idea have been transferred.

Spencer Cowley

We appreciate you sharing the feedback here. I can understand this is a frustrating experience that you are running into. I’ve recorded the feedback and we will keep it in mind as we look at prioritizing upcoming work!

Spencer Cowley - Product Manager - airfocus

Micah

Lucid community team

Idea→Future Consideration

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Simon PF

HI

I have just started using Lucid Charts and I am in the UK.

I agree the date format is not useful.

In my Recent Documents I need to easily see which ones were update and when. having MM/DD/YY can lead to mistakes.

I agree that the date should be set by the user’s locale and not fixed to the one country that uses that format.

I see this has been mentioned for almost 2 years, it should’t take that long to fix the issue.

Thank you

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @Simon PF, thank you for letting us know just how important this is to you and your workflow. I understand your desire here and appreciate you taking the time to leave your feedback.

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m2468

Just to add weight.

I understand that the US uses MM/DD/YY format and the US may be the main market for Lucid. For the rest of us MM/DD/YY is unfamiliar and on some days the date format is ambiguous, eg is 7/6/26 the 7th of June 2026 or 6th July 2026.

A better date code is unambigous, eg 7 Jun 26 and Jul 6 2026 are unambigous!

When can we have this change. I was about to create an eisenhower matrix in Lucid to suppport my work but the date codes are preventing me.

Thanks!

Mark

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @m2468, I noticed your comment here right after I responded to your comment in this thread as well.

I can see that this subject is very important to you, and rightfully so! Your voice and experience with this certainly matters. We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products- thank you for being part of the feedback process at Lucid. Comments just like these help to demonstrate how impactful this would be.

For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

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s.cleaves

Confirming that even now - August 2026 - this is really frustrating!
Please allow a global setting for date format.

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