bitwarden / bitwarden/android

[PM-22477] UI/UX inconsistency: Only in the Android app, some date formats are different from the other apps (PS: and I found some more inconsistencies regarding "date formats"...)

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Description

### Steps To Reproduce

1. Open the Android mobile app.
2. Go to a login item
3. Open "View login" for that login item.
4. Scroll down to the "Item history". (PS: Already the first inconsistency: the label "Item history" is missing only in the Android mobile app)

### Expected Result

The field should show the date in a format, that all other BW apps show -- in the browser extension, desktop app and web vault, it looks like this:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2de1f28c-c8d4-4a74-9b6f-0ab8ee0a21ae)

### Actual Result

Only the Android mobile app shows the date in a different format than all other BW apps -- on Android, it looks like this:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de677877-cfef-4e05-ba33-d05dd11fe2e1)

**Differences:**
- date format itself: "06/07/25" only in the mobile app --> "Jun 7, 2025" in all other BW apps
- the mobile app doesn't show the "Created" date
- the mobile app uses "Updated" as a term, but all other BW apps use "Last edited" (PS: at the least the desktop app also uses "Updated" as a term")
- the label "Item history" is missing on the Android app

### Screenshots or Videos

(already included)

### Additional Context

Besides the issue of inconsistent UI between the different Bitwarden apps, as a "German" I consider this also as a serious UX problem, since seeing the month as e.g. "Jun" (for June) is far less ambiguous as "06/07/25", as we in Germany are used to DD-MM-YY (and I think we are not the only country in the world, which is **not** used to MM-DD-YY" and always have to think twice, what the month and what day would be "this time"!).

PS:
1. All BW apps I mentioned are on current 2025.5.x versions.

2. Another UI/UX inconsistency: All "passkey field" dates in all BW apps ("06/07/25") are inconsistent with the date format in all other BW apps (where "Jun 7, 2025" is used instead):

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8993b891-af9c-4b22-8d9a-3d8c9f71aa35)

(this screenshot is from the web vault, and there you can see both date formats - "Passkey field" and "Last edited/Created" - in comparison)

At least the passkey field of all other BW apps is for one thing "consistent" with the passkey field date form in the mobile apps:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d3bbac4-eb49-41ba-b1e6-98f0d32cabdc)

3. Speaking of "all the date sections": Unfortunately, there is another inconsistency regarding "date formats": even in the browser extension (following screenshot), the "Last synced" date is also in the old date format (and therefore inconsistent with e.g. the date format of the "Last edited/Created" dates in the browser extension - please check the other apps for that inconsistency as well)

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d3b6f6be-3480-4c54-98f5-397a554793a7)

4. As an Android user, I can't say if the iOS mobile app has the same "inconsistency issue" as now described for Android - please check that also, if you can.

### Build Version

2025.5.0 (Android Mobile App)

### What server are you connecting to?

EU

### Self-host Server Version

(not self-hosting)

### Environment Details

- Fairphone 5
- Android 14

### Issue Tracking Info

- [x] I understand that work is tracked outside of Github. A PR will be linked to this issue should one be opened to address it, but Bitwarden doesn't use fields like "assigned", "milestone", or "project" to track progress.

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