Ability to customize the default format for DatePipe

Which @angular/* package(s) are relevant/releated to the feature request?

common

Description

Currently the DatePipe defaults the format to mediumDate. It would be great if we could provide an InjectionToken to customize it, like we already do for timezone and locale.

Proposed solution

Like the DATE_PIPE_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE, we could have something like DATE_PIPE_DEFAULT_FORMAT, so we can avoid to pass the most common format used in app (in my case shortDate) for every | date or even create our own pipe to override the default one.

Alternatives considered

Create our own pipe, but I’d prefer to avoid this… imagine if every app has its own DatePipe? Also that sounds a bit weird to have InjectionToken for timezone and locale, but not for the format.

[dev054]

Hey @flash-me, thanks for your input. As you may have noticed in the OP (Alternatives considered), we’re aware of the option of creating our own pipe, but the feature request is to include the InjectionToken in the Framework to be paired with the other parameters: timezone and locale.

It sounds a bit strange to ask for every app to create their own @Pipe, instead of providing a token, like we’re already have for the other parameters.

[Nosfistis]

Given that we can use an injection token to customize the global timezone, this implementation should not be hard!