I am using contact form 7 with wordpress 4.2. The problem I am having is that when a mail is received it is in US format: 2015-01-23. My site settings are english UK and on the form the date picker defaults to dd/mm/yyyy but mails I am receiving are in the format of US. I have tried date-format:dd/mm/yy in the tag, but it still arrives as US. This is the latest attempt:
<p>Date of Event: (Required)<br />
[date* date-387 _format_your-date "D, d M y"]
</p>
and the mail tag
Date of event:
[date-387]
I would be grateful if someone could help me to correct this to UK format. Thanks
From the documentation:
Format Date Value in Mail
As previously explained, if a value is specified in a date field, the value must be in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. 2013-04-08). When the value is inserted into mail template, the date format keeps by default. To change the format in mail, you can use a variant of mail-tag notation
[_format_{field name} "{date format}"].
So, to change the format for mail, you need to give a date format to your mail tag. This is separate from any formatting you apply to form fields.
Note also that you're meant to replace "your-date" in the examples with the name of your actual field, so for example, your mail tag should be:
[_format_date-387 "D, d M y"]