date format in mailtags

Okay, now I feel really stupid ;(
I thought this was something of contact-form 7, but I only had to change my general WordPress settings.
Sometimes, you’re just to focussed to see what’s all about.

Hi Papouck-

So was the general settings date format the only thing you had to change? The validation wants me to format like: YYYY-mm-dd, just as the documentation says. I changed the general settings, as you mentioned, to the order that I would like: m/d/Y and the form validation still says, “Date format seems invalid.”, when entering something like 05/21/2011 or 05-21-2011.

This is my form shortcode now: [date* student-dob]

Any ideas or additional steps?

Thanks!

Seems that HTML5 support for cross-browser functionality is not there across the board, so I’ll hold off on using [date].

Apologies, i know this was marked as resolved… but nothing seems to work for me.

I am trying to get the date format as dd-mm-yyyy in the email that is received (showing correctly on the web form as dd-mm-yyyy).

I have changed the general wordpress settings and used “date format” in the shortcode but it still shows as yyyy-mm-dd in the email we get?

Cheers ;o)

Refer https://contactform7.com/date-field/ – DD-MM-YYYY format is clearly not supported.

The new CF7 date tag is a HTML5 date input type which currently has only limited cross-browser support. See https://www.wufoo.com/html5/types/4-date.html for the low down on this new HTML5 form element.

Thanks buzztone, although i am aware that the date tag has only limited support, i was testing using a browser that does. My apologies though…i completely missed the bit that said you could only have YYYY-MM-DD format using this html5 tag. I just assumed that they wouldn’t be so daft as to only have one date format?!

Try this:

In your body message, replace [YOUR-NAME-DATE] for [_format_YOUR-NAME-DATE “D, d M y”]

Works to me!

I tried that @roddrigoo but it doesn’t do anything except spit out the tag in the email:

Schedule Date: [_format_ scheduled-date “D, d M y”]