Enable UK date format on Sense

[GemRuth]

Pls, pls enable UK format. I can't believe how much I paid for the Sense and you can't even give international date formats. Everytime I look at it I get the date wrong. Pls include an English version DD/MM/YY. Can't believe this hasn't been resolved yet.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[fattonyni]

I have a solution. My Fitbit Sense showed the US date format (MMM DD) from new, on Spectrum clockface, despite having UK set as the locale. However when I went to the App Settings (where you set up 12/24hr clock and units) I found when I changed to Nederland (Engels), which uses international format, it fixed the date format to DD MMM. Occasional minor notifications appear on the watch in Dutch, but l find it's worth it to know what the date is.

[Guy_]

@fattonyni  - You can check if the watch followed the change using SimpleSecretary which shows the language in use at start up.

Generally the rule seems to be English [CA,GB, US] is US and MMM DD, anything else is DD MMM.

You may have found a combination with location and language that renders something else, but it also depends on clock face implementations which can respond differently.

[fattonyni]

Correction to my original post.

After a while, my date format reverted again, so it seems the solution is to use Nederland (Engels) as your location, or one of the other country formats that uses DD MMM. The issue appears to be that the United Kingdom setting (and perhaps some others) is incorrectly configured to use US date format, at least on the Fitbit Sense.