# Date in local format **URL:** \ **Category:** Time Series Panel\ **Created:** [May 23, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617 "2019-05-23T16:55:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@pooh](https://community.grafana.com/u/pooh)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/1 "2019-05-23T16:55:09Z")
Hi. I’ve got a couple of graph panels which go over the past week and the past month, showing values on the Y axis and the date on the X axis. However, the date is shown as mm/dd, which I know some people think makes sense, but it doesn’t to my users (in Europe) - they expect 5/10 to mean the 5th of October, and 5/13 is just silly. So, how to do I tell Grafana that we want local date representation on the X axis of graphs? I can’t possibly be the first person to run into this problem… Thanks, Antony. ---
**Author:** ![pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@pooh](https://community.grafana.com/u/pooh)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/2 "2019-05-27T10:48:31Z")
> Hi. > > I’ve got a couple of graph panels which go over the past week and the past > month, showing values on the Y axis and the date on the X axis. > > However, the date is shown as mm/dd, which I know some people think makes > sense, but it doesn’t to my users (in Europe) - they expect 5/10 to mean > the 5th of October, and 5/13 is just silly. > > So, how to do I tell Grafana that we want local date representation on the > X axis of graphs? Can anyone help with this? I’d find it hard to believe that the date format is hard-coded in an application like this. Even if it’s not a GUI setting, it must be in a config file somewhere? Searching in grafana.ini for “date” or “format” doesn’t give me anything helpful ☹ ---
**Author:** ![clanlaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@clanlaw](https://community.grafana.com/u/clanlaw)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/3 "2019-05-27T12:37:50Z")
I would like to know how to change this too. I would have expected it to use the locale of the browser (or even the server), which apparently it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![danielgonzalez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/danielgonzalez/32/7125_2.png) [@danielgonzalez](https://community.grafana.com/u/danielgonzalez)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/4 "2019-05-27T13:39:31Z")
This plugin has the option to create a custom format > **[GitHub - CorpGlory/grafana-multibar-graph-panel: A plugin implementing...](https://github.com/CorpGlory/grafana-multibar-graph-panel)** > > A plugin implementing https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/870 - GitHub - CorpGlory/grafana-multibar-graph-panel: A plugin implementing https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/870 ---
**Author:** ![clanlaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@clanlaw](https://community.grafana.com/u/clanlaw)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/5 "2019-05-27T20:48:13Z")
Excellent, thanks. I will give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![joelzoll31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@joelzoll31](https://community.grafana.com/u/joelzoll31)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/6 "2020-01-22T13:37:43Z")
This Plugin insn’t working i there an other way? lg ---
**Author:** ![hofo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@hofo](https://community.grafana.com/u/hofo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/date-in-local-format/17617/7 "2020-02-12T10:18:45Z")
Please make this happen, in the US they also write MM/DD/YYYY. For european this makes no sense at all. I’m wondering why the are not writing the time with 30/11 for half past 11, or 11:30 (don’t forget to use pm and am!).