Set default date formatting on global or app level

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When using dates and times in tables and other components that default formatting for dates is "MMM d, yyyy" and times are shown in 12-hour format and without seconds. Also, by default dates/times are shown in the local time zone of the user.

If we wanted to show dates/times in a different format, e.g. with seconds and 24-hour format and dd/MM/yyyy for dates, and in UTC time zone, we do need to update this for every component (or even column in a table that is showing dates/times).

It would be much more efficient if we could set a default on app-level if not even on global level?

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Hey @moritz, welcome to the community :hugs:

Agree! App/Global level settings for localization would be awesome.

I ran into the same issue and just created a transformer that holds all of my localization pref. and reference that in my components.

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Seconding that this would be a really great (and simple to add?) feature.

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@moritz,

For a workaround you could use a technique similar to this: [how-to] Use a global lookup array on all of your apps in your organization's javascript settings.

Store your global momentjs formats like:

window.dataFormat = ""MMM d, yyyy""

Then you could this in all of your data output: moment(myDate.value).format(dataFormat)

A similar technique (maybe on an app level instead) would also get your time zones.

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