Answers.Body: <p>It might well be that the relevant function does (wrongly) not use the date formatting based on the settings. Could you check that?</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Well we're using CiviMail for these mailings but that function doesn't appear to have a separate date formatting setting.
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Answers.Text: I am sure it does not :-) I meant if you have any PHP skills and would be able to check in the code?
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Body: <p>We're trying to have the date-of-birth field for our contacts displayed in dd-mm-yyyy format when using mailings but despite me altering every single relevant setting in Civi...our test mailings still display the date of birth in yyyy-mm-dd format? Why might this be?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It would help if you could state what version of CiviCRM you are using with what CMS?
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Tags: <localisation>
Title: Date of birth fields
ThreadText: # Date of birth fields
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-06)
  
  We're trying to have the date-of-birth field for our contacts displayed in dd-mm-yyyy format when using mailings but despite me altering every single relevant setting in Civi...our test mailings still display the date of birth in yyyy-mm-dd format? Why might this be?
  
  **Tags:** localisation
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It would help if you could state what version of CiviCRM you are using with what CMS?  
  > **username_0**: Civi 4.6. With Joomla.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-06. Score: 1
  
  It might well be that the relevant function does (wrongly) not use the date formatting based on the settings. Could you check that?
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Well we're using CiviMail for these mailings but that function doesn't appear to have a separate date formatting setting.  
  > **username_1**: I am sure it does not :-) I meant if you have any PHP skills and would be able to check in the code?  
  
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