Myne shows dates in a lot of places, and three settings decide how they are written. They live in Settings, under Editor.
Prerequisites
You need an unlocked vault. These settings are stored in the vault’s encrypted preferences, so they are not available on the lock screen.
Choose a date format
- Open Settings, then Editor.
- Find Date format.
- Pick one. Each option is shown as a worked example of the same date, so you are choosing the output rather than a name for it. Match language follows the language you chose for Myne, not your operating system’s region.
The choice applies wherever Myne prints a date: a due date on a task line inside a note, the same task’s row in the Tasks panel, a date column in a saved view, an attachment’s date. It does not change anything written in your notes. What is stored is always the same, and only the way it is drawn changes.
Choose a time format
Time format is the same idea with fewer options: Match language, 24-hour, or 12-hour. It applies to times Myne prints, including a time carried on a task’s due date or reminder.
Set a time zone
Time zone takes an IANA zone name such as Europe/Berlin. Leave it empty to follow the device you are on, which is what most people want.
This setting is narrower than it looks, and the narrowness is the point.
It decides two things. What counts as today, which is what puts a task in the Today bucket and what the daily note action opens. And how a real moment is printed, such as the date an attachment was added, which is a fixed point in time that genuinely reads differently in different zones.
It changes nothing about a time you write in a note. A reminder written for 09:00 is 09:00 wherever you are. Myne never converts it, never stores an offset, and never stores a zone alongside it.
What travels and what stays
Date format and Time format travel with your vault. Choose one on a computer and your phone shows it too, once it has synced. There is no second choice to make.
Time zone is settled per device. When two devices disagree, each keeps its own: the zone you set here never overwrites the one on your computer. That is deliberate, because the right zone is a property of where a device is, and a phone that travels and a computer that does not should not have to agree.
One thing worth being exact about, because it is easy to read the sentence above as more than it says. The zone is stored in your vault’s encrypted preferences, and with sync on that file travels to the server like the rest of your vault. What is inside it, this setting included, stays unreadable there. And a device joining an existing vault for the first time starts from the vault’s stored preferences, this value among them, until it sets its own.
Finding a date you can see
When you search inside a note with Find, Myne looks for the text as it is stored. A due date is stored as 2026-08-01 however you have chosen to read it, so if you type the date the way it appears on screen and get nothing, Myne searches for the stored form instead and tells you in the find bar that it did.
Replace is switched off while that is happening. The text being matched is the stored form, so a replacement written the way you read dates would leave a date Myne can no longer understand, and the task would quietly drop out of every dated view. Opening Find shows you the stored text on the line, so if you do want to replace a date, that is the text to type.
This works whichever date format you have chosen, and in whichever language you are reading Myne in. One thing it does not do: if your language prints its own numerals, Find needs the date typed in those, not in the Western ones.
Limits
These settings change presentation only. They do not encrypt anything, protect anything, or change what is stored: nothing here alters a byte in a note, and nothing here changes what the server can read, which for the encrypted preferences file is nothing. The server does hold that file’s ciphertext, its size and a version counter, as it does for everything else you sync.
The dates and times you write in a note are stored without a zone, so a note does not record where you were when you wrote it. The time-zone setting is a display preference kept in the vault’s encrypted preferences, and it never becomes part of a note.