Update the Date of Birth field to reflect the date format being displayed (mm/dd/yyyy)

Could the label for the date of birth field in all the on Products be updated to reflect the format in which the date is displaying.  It is difficult to determine from the contact card if day or month is first.  The field should be Date of Birth (mm/dd/yyyy) so that users can see this easily.

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  • Jan 23 2017
K-12 Core / User Management
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  • Christopher Fleischl commented
    18 Sep 13:24

    Upvote this. However, instead of labeling the format, instead, it would be far better to have dates respect the user's browser locale settings. This is an issue throughout the UI for Core, SIS, and LMS.


    Dates and date fields ignore browser locale settings and always display in US date format. Worse, in many places the date picker with localize for the end user, but when the data is submitted, the server naively treats the supplied data as though it is in US-format which means you either have day and month transposed, or you get a nondescript error on save.


    This is a huge source of frustration for international students and foreign language teachers.

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  • Ash Smelkinson commented
    January 25, 2017 14:30

    We changed what that field is called in our Inquiries and Applications so that it says what you suggested above. We haven't had any problems with people entering it incorrectly that I know of, and it hasn't damaged our ability to pull that data on the backend.

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