I expect the date, at a minimum, to appear in a localized format according to location, with month clearly displayed to avoid any misunderstanding. Given that the US is the one the only countries in the world that uses mm/dd/yyyy format and the majority of the world uses either dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd (those are the international standards) it should be clear what the day is for where the user is.
If a user who is used to seeing dd/mm/yyyy sees the date 08/03/2017 they are going to think it means the 8th of March 2017, when on the roblox website, given its in the US format, this means the 3rd of August 2017.
There should be no confusion.
08/03/2017 should appear as 03 Aug 2017 so that regardless of where you are, you can understand the month and day without any misunderstanding. Javascript also offers built in options for localization, so its not a major effort to do the conversions.
Actual Behavior
Date appears in the US format of mm/dd/yyyy.
Workaround
Writing my own javascript code (which is very hacky to deal with load times) to try and convert the date for me.
A map of date formats around the world, red is mm/dd/yy, blue is dd/mm/yy, green is dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd and yellow is yy/mm/dd, Source: Date format by country - Wikipedia
I personally think that roblox should add a setting option which allows you to customise which date format is shown or for it to be defaulted to your location, as a british person it is awfully annoying having to think about wether the date format is correct or not.
A possible method for this could be a new setting or just use the set langauge.
The only issue I see with using language is, well, the same languages being used in multiple countries for example there is no differentiation between English (US) and English (UK).
Personally I feel a good balance between dd/mm and mm/dd is Month Xth YYYY (eg Jan 1st 1970, June 4th 1989, Sept 1st 2006) as almost everyone can read that no matter where they live
Alternatively, finding some way to clearly display which one is month and which one is day is also a good option.
While most older people can probably interpret that an American company is putting out American formatted dates, the main target audience of Roblox is very young and will often not realise that it’s formatted the way it is if they’re outside of America/anywhere that puts month first.
