From 22cc504e3be7cc560ddabfc7727f69047439731b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mattspeer <mwspeer@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 11:43:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update docker-compose.yaml

Added variable to properly parse dates in MM/DD/YYYY format.
---
 docker-compose.yaml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 811a748..fe5b64d 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -96,13 +96,16 @@ services:
 # be a very long sequence of random characters. You don't need to remember it.
       PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY: f87r3q8urqdasoiW98R32RIFDSAWO87OIJEWOIJFA893QOIJ3298EF98EWOIJEW84398R3
 # Use this variable to set a timezone for the Paperless Docker containers. If not specified, defaults to UTC.
-      #PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE: America/Los_Angeles
+      PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE: America/Chicago
 # The default language to use for OCR. Set this to the language most of your
 # documents are written in.
       #PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE: eng
 # The url used to access paperless
       PAPERLESS_URL: https://paperless.speerfam.net
 
+# Set date parser
+      PAPERLESS_DATE_ORDER: MDY
+
 volumes:
   data:
   media: