Use same date and time format as in my computer's settings

Many people like to use English as their display language, but get confused with the US date format: 11/06 is October 6 in the US, but June 11 in many other countries. Why not display the date according to the setting in Windows?

Same goes for time, of course, where many use 24 hour format instead of am and pm.

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Johan Tideström shared this idea · Nov 3, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

on the backlog ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Sep 9, 2018

This feature is still on the backlog.

-Warren

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on the backlog ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jul 31, 2018

This feature is still on the backlog. It is making its way through the queue but no new details are available yet.

-Warren

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AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 2, 2018

This item is still on the backlog.

No additional details to provide, but the team does understand this is a big need from the community.

I’m working on getting more information and possibly an ETA. I’ll keep you posted.

-Warren

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AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Mar 20, 2018

This item has moved to the backlog.

No additional details to provide, but the team does understand this is a big need from the community.
As we move along with getting this feature implemented I will keep you posted.

-Warren

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AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 12, 2018

This item is now being planned. As more information becomes available I will let you know.

-Warren

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AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Dec 15, 2017

Hello everyone,
Just a small update. This is being reviewed by the feature team to determine the root of the issue.
I hope to have more information for you soon!
-Warren

working on it ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jun 22, 2017

Hi everyone!

There are two things going on here: there’s a bug that’s messing up your time/date settings, and there’s this feature request asking specifically for a certain format.

1. We’re actively trying to squash this bug across your computers.
2. We have work in progress for this feature request.

Thank you and hang tight! Bug fix coming soon, feature request en route.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

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Simon commented · January 15, 2019 6:49 AM · Flag as inappropriate

News?

I'm really surprised by how hard simple functions seems to be sometimes.
Sean Ellis commented · January 10, 2019 12:58 PM · Flag as inappropriate

567 days should be enough to insert one call to toLocaleDateString() and one call to toLocaleTimeString().

This gets everything displayed in the machine locale's date and time format.
Aytekin commented · January 3, 2019 11:12 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Awating the fix. It is very annoying.
Chamingoo commented · December 18, 2018 11:23 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news about this ?? It is really confusing
Anders Candell commented · December 12, 2018 5:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I'm pretty ****** I even had to google this. How long has "regional settings" been present in Windows? Really? Wouldn't Microsoft's own developers be pretty familiar with this, and shouldn't they be following their own best practices?

Right now, my "workaround" is to use Swedish interface, which gives me correct date and time format, but then the spell-checking seems locked to Swedish as well, and I mainly communicate in English.
Anonymous commented · December 6, 2018 7:05 AM · Flag as inappropriate

please fix this

Its very annoying.

Typically small minded US attitude where they think GLOBAL means more than 1 state.
Anonymous commented · November 21, 2018 4:15 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Teams does not feel like a global product. It is clearly aiming for US customers. The way Microsoft completely ignors non-US date and time formats and normal uer settings is just beyond belief.
Localization has been around for decades, it is not that hard Microsoft!
Anonymous commented · October 6, 2018 4:51 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is incredibly broken.
a) Office language/locale settings all used to "just work" - talk to ChrisPr !
b) Teams ignores all local settings when installed: Windows system locale, Office language settings, browser settings
c) It takes its date format and spell-check from a separate language setting (these should be independent) . Spell-check is usually keyed off the system keyboard language setting, which Teams ignores and provides a keyboard language setting which only has keyboard layout options

I'm not sure how much more wrong it could be. But clearly there's a lot of contempt for non-US customers.
Anonymous commented · October 4, 2018 12:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It is honestly shocking that this is not implemented yet.
Anonymous commented · August 27, 2018 3:09 AM · Flag as inappropriate

O365 is marketed as a global solution so one really wonder how MS came to the conclusion to use US format when there is an ISO standard for it. If only one format can be supported by Teams then it should be the internationally standardized one. Not something local like US.

For several reasons I run all my applications in english but still want the local formatting. Amazing that this basic requirement can be on the backlog for almost two years by now!
Zoltán Lehóczky commented · August 22, 2018 3:42 AM · Flag as inappropriate

FYI if you change the language to English/UK then the date format will be the correct one ;).
Chris Caley commented · August 21, 2018 10:25 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I have fixed by checking Settings it says "App language determines the date and time format." The app was set to United States but Browser was set to Australia, I have fixed the app date display by changing the language.
Travis Terrell commented · August 15, 2018 12:48 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I just came here to say that, even here in North America, 11/06 is not October 6.
JyriK commented · August 1, 2018 11:19 PM · Flag as inappropriate

For real. This is a basic requirement. Not all people use same time format than U.S.

These settings should really come from OS.
Sune Rievers commented · June 27, 2018 4:10 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any update on this? This is 2018, localization is not *hard* people.
Sean Ellis commented · June 26, 2018 1:47 AM · Flag as inappropriate

20 months since first report, still no action.
Erik Berg commented · June 13, 2018 8:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any luck getting that ETA?
Larry commented · June 11, 2018 5:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate

How can this still be an issue? How hard is this to fix!?!?!?
Gunnar Óskarsson commented · May 28, 2018 3:28 PM · Flag as inappropriate

At the very least, having a 12-hour/24-hour format switch in the setting would go a long way. That is, assuming the system date and time format is somehow a complicated implementation, making it stuck on the backlog for so long.
Sean Ellis commented · May 24, 2018 8:04 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Warren: "the team does understand this is a big need".

MS UI guidelines say that supporting the system time and date format is "the very least" that an app should do.

My initial thought was that the Windows API has a function that does exactly this - GetDateFormatEx(). But it's really a HTML application under the hood.

No problem - the Javascript API has functions that does exactly this too - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/scripting/javascript/reference/intl-datetimeformat-object-javascript