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Firefox auto populates date in a wrong format for a website, how do i change it ?

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hardeep_singh
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We are working on a library system management software that also provides us a webapp to work. The date is auto-populated in forms in the format yyyy--mm-dd instead of the fact that the computer is setup on mm/dd/yyyy format. Is there a way we can change this or is it something that is embedded in the website. Just a note that the same thing works fine in chrome only.

We are working on a library system management software that also provides us a webapp to work. The date is auto-populated in forms in the format yyyy--mm-dd instead of the fact that the computer is setup on mm/dd/yyyy format. Is there a way we can change this or is it something that is embedded in the website. Just a note that the same thing works fine in chrome only.

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guigs
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Hi hardeep_singh, Thank you for your question, I understand that there is a date format difference in a website in two different browsers. I would imagine that this is a functionality of the site, however I did find this: