Hello

Newbie here. I fear this is a bit basic, but I've been looking for answers for a couple of weeks with no luck. Hopefully this isn't too much to ask of the community.

​I have a custom object and a Visualforce page to edit the records. There is a Due Date field on the object of type Date.  When the record is edited, we need the date that is displayed in the input field to appear either in US format, or according to the user's locale.  We are fine with either. What we always get is yyyy-mm-dd. We want mm/dd/yyyy. Have read that Visualforce is supposed to respect a user's locale settings.

There are lots of posts around date formatting when you are using apex:outputText and apex:param tags when you are just viewing the data, but that doesn't work when you have an apex:inputField tag.

Here is the code:

<apex:page standardController="MyObject__c" docType="html-5.0" >
 <apex:form>
  <apex:outputPanel layout="block" >
   <apex:outputLabel value="Due Date" for="duedate"/>
   <apex:inputField type="date" showDatePicker="false" styleClass="slds-input" id="duedate" value="{!MyObject__c.Due_Date__c}"/>
  </apex:outputPanel>
 </apex:form>
</apex:page>

​​I have found a few approaches that deal with some custom controller code. But it doesn't seem like it should be that difficult or that much work. Is there some easy formatting option that I am missing? The code above is easy with the simple binding right to the object field. I did some experimenting trying to override the field in a controller extension to format a string using a getter. But I couldn't get that exactly right from the perspective of how to reference the controller extension's methods in the page, let alone what to do during a save operation. But if doing it in controller code is necessary, I'd appreciate some pointers in the right direction. I'm going through Trailhead and some other educational materials as I can, but in parallel have some development requests to address.

Thanks!
Steve​


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