Hello community!
Better late than never. The results of the 7th Micro Survey are in. In this survey we looked at date and time formats. The reason: We received a support ticket about the display of the date in the ‘Details’ section of a check, which was displayed as “Mar 20 2023” and was not perceived as helpful when trying to get a quick overview.
We had an idea of what we liked, but we wanted to make sure the new date format worked for you aswell! So we ran a Micro survey.
We found out:
YYYY-MM-DD is the preferred date format because it’s easy to sort and follows the ISO8601 standard.
Although we have a strong survey bias towards European users (98%), interpreting a date such as 06/05/2023 without further context is not as easy for participants as expected and prone to misinterpretation.
As expected, European-based participants prefer the 24-hour time format to the AM/PM format.
That’s why we will change the date format of the in the ‘Details’ section of the Check to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. We are also investigating how and where to incorporate system/browser settings adaptation for date and time formats for a consistent user experience.
Thank you all for your participation and feedback!
Cheers,
Tanja
