# Date format changes to US by default while entering the data manually

**URL:** <https://forums.pega.com/t/date-format-changes-to-us-by-default-while-entering-the-data-manually/3678>\
**Category:** User Experience\
**Tags:** financial-services, 8-6-3, user-experience, senior-system-architect\
**Created:** [December 20, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/date-format-changes-to-us-by-default-while-entering-the-data-manually/3678 "2022-12-20T09:22:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AnandP17019846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@AnandP17019846](https://forums.pega.com/u/AnandP17019846)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/date-format-changes-to-us-by-default-while-entering-the-data-manually/3678/1 "2022-12-20T09:22:49Z")

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Hi,

when we are using date control, the data is changed by default to US format when entering the date manually; regardless of locale settings. It works fine when we use calendar icon to select the date or rather use datetime control. Is it expected behavior or it’s a bug?

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**Author:** ![MarijeSchillern](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/pega/user_avatar/forums.pega.com/marijeschillern/32/23321_2.png) [@MarijeSchillern](https://forums.pega.com/u/MarijeSchillern)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/date-format-changes-to-us-by-default-while-entering-the-data-manually/3678/2 "2022-12-20T12:13:49Z")

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@AnandP I can see that you posted a very similar question a week ago under [Date Format Changes back to US format when using On-Change Event](https://support.pega.com/question/date-format-changes-back-us-format-when-using-change-event)

Can you confirm that you have applied all necessary formatting as per [Dates and Times](https://docs-previous.pega.com/pega-customer-decision-hub-user-guide/86/dates-and-times) documentation ?

eg [Date properties](https://docs-previous.pega.com/user-experience/86/date-properties)

[Selecting the date and time format](https://docs-previous.pega.com/user-experience/86/selecting-date-and-time-format)

[Understanding the Date, TimeofDay, and DateTime property types](https://docs-previous.pega.com/sites/default/files/help_v718/concepts/concepts2/conceptsdatetime.htm)

[Configuring the basic settings for a Date time control - a date or time](https://docs-previous.pega.com/user-experience-theme-ui-kit/86/configuring-basic-settings-date-time-control-date-or-time)

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**Author:** ![AnandP17019846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@AnandP17019846](https://forums.pega.com/u/AnandP17019846)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/date-format-changes-to-us-by-default-while-entering-the-data-manually/3678/3 "2023-01-05T10:45:55Z")

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@MarijeSchillern Raised an incident - INC-253885 and as per support team this behavior is expected for date property when date is entered manually and this cannot be changed as this would require huge regression testing from product side