Property Date Format

Obsidian shows dates in Properties the way your operating system's language says. If your system is in US English and you think in DD.MM.YYYY, you get 03/09/2026, 02:05 PM and there is no setting to change it. The forum request for one has been open since 2023.

This plugin adds that setting.

Pick a date format and a time format in Settings → Property Date Format. Presets cover YYYY-MM-DD, DD.MM.YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, D MMM YYYY and a few more, and you can type any Moment.js format. Time is HH:mm (24-hour) or h:mm A.

Only the display changes. The note keeps the standard value (due: 2026-03-09), so Bases, Dataview, search and other apps read it exactly as before.

Typing dates

Click a date and type it in your own format: 24.12.2026 is saved as 2026-12-24. Pasting 2026-12-24 works too. If the plugin can't read what you typed (say 31.02.2026), the field gets a red underline and the note is not changed; press Escape to get the old value back. The calendar button next to each date opens Obsidian's usual date picker.

It works in the Properties panel of a note and in Bases table cells.

Install

In Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for "Property Date Format", install and enable it.

Manual install: download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/property-date-format/.

Limits

Obsidian has no public API for the property editor, so the plugin puts its own text field in front of Obsidian's date input and finds those inputs by their CSS class. A future Obsidian update could rename them; if dates suddenly look stock again, that's why, and an issue here helps. Tested on Obsidian 1.15 desktop (Linux). I haven't tested it on mobile yet.

Licence

MIT