Shortcuts 'get a date from input' action not working as expected after last update

This works fine on my end when I select March 17 in the "Ask for" action:

I've seen some shortcuts failing for languages other than English. So I switched my iPhone to Dutch (Nederland) and I was able to reproduce the problem:

Please let Apple know: Product Feedback. Choose the iPhone category as there is no Shortcuts app on that website. You could either write your submission in English or Dutch. You could reference this discussion to provide the Apple teams with an example.

Digging a little more, I found that the month of March seems to be the issue, especially its abbreviation "mrt" (in Dutch). Shortcuts doesn't have an issue with April or "apr" (in Dutch).

If I specify "Maart" instead of "mrt", the returned date is correct:

So as a workaround until Shortcuts is fixed, try to use the "Format Date" action to format the date using the month full name instead of its abbreviation, i.e. "maart" instead of "mrt", before saving it in your text file. Use the Long format for the date, and Short format for the time:

I may have found a solution if you use the Ask for Date action:

The trick is to format the date as Short for the variable Ask for Date in the Text action:

I force-restarted my device several times to make sure the shortcut kept working.

Are you sure that's the current date?

The screenshot shows '18 art 2028 20:52', but your phone clock shows the time as 15:07, indicting that it's not the current date/time

I don’t understand why it’s no longer working. I ran it multiple times successfully. The only thing I did was to force restart my device. A forced restart remove some of the cache files. I guess it impacts Shortcuts somehow.

I’ll keep looking, though.

Hello MI1111,

iOS 26.4 was just released. Let us know if it fixes the issue.

You are most welcome.

iOS 26.4 should be released early next week. Apple may have already corrected the issue in this upcoming release. Retry your shortcut after updating to check.

MI1111 ~ What device/model & OS version?

And please post a screenshot of the relevant portion of your shortcut.

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Where is the action “Haal datums op uit” coming from? It doesn’t seem to be a standard Shortcuts action. Do you use an alternate calendar app? Or is it something else?

Hi Camelot, they are getting a stored date from Data Jar. The 1st screenshot shows that that date should be March 17. Yet, the mysterious “Haal datums op uit” action returns today’s date.

Could you comment on the action “Haal datums op uit”? It’s not a standard Shortcuts action.

Hi MI1111, I see it now, thanks. Could you try the following code to see if the issue is with the data coming from the file? (My iPad uses the U.S date format, for you it would be 17/03/2026.)