To make it easy let's disable Drupal datepicker and make it with javascript. First disable jquery ui datepicker from exposed filter (like picture below) [![enter image description here][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/n80HA.png Then create a module with libraries in file my_module.libraries.yml like below d8_datepicker: version: 1.x js: https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.0/jquery-ui.min.js: { type: external, minified: true } js/datepicker.js: {} And in our my_module.module let's alter the exposed form and add line below : function my_module_form_alter(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id){ if ($form_id == 'views_exposed_form') { $form['field_date_value']['#type'] = 'textfield'; $form['field_date_value']['#attributes']['class'][] = 'datepicker-text'; $form['field_date_value']['#attributes']['placeholder'] = 'yyyy-dd-mm'; $form['#attached']['library'][] = 'd8/d8_datepicker'; $form['#validate'][] = 'my_exposed_validate'; } In our validate form function we will change date from our custom format to format needed by drupal : function my_exposed_validate(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state) { if(!empty($form['field_date_value']['#value'])) { $dt = date_create_from_format('Y-d-m', $form['field_date_value']['#value']); if($dt!==FALSE) { $value = $dt->format("Y-m-d"); $form_state->setValue('field_date_value', $value); } } } And finaly in our file datepicker.js add this line : (function($) { $('.datepicker-text').datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-dd-mm' }); })(jQuery); Hope this helpful and if you wan't to go further, alter a form validation to check if the format sended is date or not ;)