diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/format-locale.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/format-locale.test.ts
index cab583128..dea53e046 100644
--- a/src/lib/__tests__/format-locale.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/format-locale.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
 import {
   hourCycleOptions,
   makeFormatters,
@@ -212,6 +212,71 @@ describe("makeFormatters", () => {
       expect(fmt.date(new Date("2026-10-25T01:30:00Z"))).toBe("25.10.2026");
     });
   });
+
+  // Issue #66 (date-format sweep) — `dateShortSmart` / `dateWithWeekdaySmart`
+  // add the year only when it differs from "now"'s year, so a chart axis,
+  // history list, or timeline never reads a bare "19.02." for a reading
+  // from a prior year and mistakes it for this year's. "Now" is faked so
+  // the boundary is deterministic regardless of the day this suite runs.
+  describe("conditional-year formatters (#66)", () => {
+    const RIGHT_NOW = new Date("2026-07-10T12:00:00Z");
+
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      vi.useFakeTimers();
+      vi.setSystemTime(RIGHT_NOW);
+    });
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    });
+
+    it("dateShortSmart omits the year for a date in the current year", () => {
+      const de = makeFormatters("de");
+      const en = makeFormatters("en");
+      const thisYear = new Date("2026-02-19T10:00:00Z");
+      expect(de.dateShortSmart(thisYear)).toBe("19.02.");
+      expect(en.dateShortSmart(thisYear)).not.toContain("2026");
+    });
+
+    it("dateShortSmart includes the year for a date from a prior year", () => {
+      const de = makeFormatters("de");
+      const en = makeFormatters("en");
+      // A December-of-last-year date — the exact regression this guards.
+      const lastDecember = new Date("2025-12-16T10:00:00Z");
+      expect(de.dateShortSmart(lastDecember)).toBe("16.12.2025");
+      expect(en.dateShortSmart(lastDecember)).toContain("2025");
+    });
+
+    it("dateWithWeekdaySmart mirrors the same boundary", () => {
+      const de = makeFormatters("de");
+      const thisYear = new Date("2026-02-19T10:00:00Z");
+      const lastDecember = new Date("2025-12-16T10:00:00Z");
+      expect(de.dateWithWeekdaySmart(thisYear)).not.toContain("2026");
+      expect(de.dateWithWeekdaySmart(lastDecember)).toContain("2025");
+    });
+
+    it("compares the year in the formatter's own timezone, not the host's", () => {
+      // 2026-01-01T00:30Z is still 2025-12-31 in America/New_York (UTC-5) —
+      // the profile-tz formatter must agree with what it actually prints,
+      // not with a UTC or host-local read of "now"/the value.
+      const nyFmt = makeFormatters("en", "America/New_York");
+      const newYearUtcEve = new Date("2026-01-01T00:30:00Z");
+      // RIGHT_NOW (2026-07-10) is year 2026 in New York too, so a value
+      // that prints as 2025 in New York must carry the year.
+      expect(nyFmt.dateShortSmart(newYearUtcEve)).toContain("2025");
+    });
+
+    it("monthYear always carries the year (chart axis / next-dose labels)", () => {
+      const de = makeFormatters("de");
+      const en = makeFormatters("en");
+      const dec = new Date("2025-12-30T10:00:00Z");
+      const jan = new Date("2026-01-15T10:00:00Z");
+      expect(de.monthYear(dec)).toContain("2025");
+      expect(de.monthYear(jan)).toContain("2026");
+      expect(en.monthYear(dec)).toBe("Dec 2025");
+      expect(en.monthYear(jan)).toBe("Jan 2026");
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 // v1.25.3 — the time-format preference must reach every hour/minute renderer,
diff --git a/src/lib/format-locale.ts b/src/lib/format-locale.ts
index 8628b9ba6..7f5d42529 100644
--- a/src/lib/format-locale.ts
+++ b/src/lib/format-locale.ts
@@ -120,6 +120,23 @@ function asDate(value: DateInput): Date {
   return value instanceof Date ? value : new Date(value);
 }
 
+/**
+ * True when `date` falls in the same calendar year as "now", both read in
+ * `tz`. Backs the `*Smart` conditional-year formatters below — a date is
+ * compared in the SAME timezone the formatter renders it in (rather than
+ * the runtime's local timezone) so a UTC-pinned bucket-label formatter
+ * (`makeBucketLabelFormatters`, chart axes) and a profile-timezone
+ * formatter agree with what they actually print. `getDateTimeFormat` is
+ * the same process-wide cache the rest of this module uses, so the extra
+ * lookup is cheap.
+ */
+function isCurrentYearInTz(date: Date, tz: string, localeTag: string): boolean {
+  const yearOnly = { timeZone: tz, year: "numeric" as const };
+  const target = getDateTimeFormat(localeTag, yearOnly).format(date);
+  const now = getDateTimeFormat(localeTag, yearOnly).format(new Date());
+  return target === now;
+}
+
 export interface Formatters {
   /** Integer or decimal with the active locale's decimal separator. */
   number: (value: number, fractionDigits?: number) => string;
@@ -131,14 +148,34 @@ export interface Formatters {
   date: (value: DateInput) => string;
   /** Short date without year, e.g. "19.02." / "Feb 19". */
   dateShort: (value: DateInput) => string;
+  /**
+   * Short date that adds the year whenever `value` falls outside the
+   * current calendar year, e.g. "19.02." this year vs. "19.02.2025" for
+   * a date from last year. Use this instead of `dateShort` on any
+   * surface that can render a date older than the current year (chart
+   * axes/tooltips, history lists, timelines) — see the "generell
+   * überall" year-disambiguation rule.
+   */
+  dateShortSmart: (value: DateInput) => string;
   /** Full date + time; hour cycle follows the `timeFormat` preference. */
   dateTime: (value: DateInput) => string;
   /** Time only, e.g. "14:30" or "2:30 PM" per the `timeFormat` preference. */
   time: (value: DateInput) => string;
   /** Short weekday + date, e.g. "Do., 19.02." / "Thu, Feb 19". */
   dateWithWeekday: (value: DateInput) => string;
+  /**
+   * Short weekday + date that adds the year whenever `value` falls
+   * outside the current calendar year, e.g. "Do., 19.02." this year vs.
+   * "Do., 19.02.2025" for a date from last year.
+   */
+  dateWithWeekdaySmart: (value: DateInput) => string;
   /** For axis labels: 3-letter month abbreviation. */
   monthShort: (value: DateInput) => string;
+  /**
+   * Month + year, e.g. "Feb. 2026" / "Feb 2026" — for axis labels and
+   * next-dose captions that need to disambiguate a Dec → Jan rollover.
+   */
+  monthYear: (value: DateInput) => string;
 }
 
 export function makeFormatters(
@@ -205,6 +242,18 @@ export function makeFormatters(
         month: "2-digit",
       }).format(asDate(value)),
 
+    dateShortSmart: (value) => {
+      const d = asDate(value);
+      return getDateTimeFormat(dateLocale, {
+        timeZone: tz,
+        day: "2-digit",
+        month: "2-digit",
+        ...(isCurrentYearInTz(d, tz, dateLocale)
+          ? {}
+          : { year: "numeric" as const }),
+      }).format(d);
+    },
+
     dateTime: (value) =>
       getDateTimeFormat(dateLocale, {
         timeZone: tz,
@@ -232,11 +281,31 @@ export function makeFormatters(
         month: "2-digit",
       }).format(asDate(value)),
 
+    dateWithWeekdaySmart: (value) => {
+      const d = asDate(value);
+      return getDateTimeFormat(dateLocale, {
+        timeZone: tz,
+        weekday: "short",
+        day: "2-digit",
+        month: "2-digit",
+        ...(isCurrentYearInTz(d, tz, dateLocale)
+          ? {}
+          : { year: "numeric" as const }),
+      }).format(d);
+    },
+
     monthShort: (value) =>
       getDateTimeFormat(intlLocale, {
         timeZone: tz,
         month: "short",
       }).format(asDate(value)),
+
+    monthYear: (value) =>
+      getDateTimeFormat(intlLocale, {
+        timeZone: tz,
+        month: "short",
+        year: "numeric",
+      }).format(asDate(value)),
   };
 }