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.
Johan Tideström
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The team is working on fixing date/time format to honor your computer settings. Please stay tuned for further updates.
254 comments
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Anonymous
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Teams are now our main collaboration tool. So please, release an update to allow use of regional settings for date and time. I run English Windows and Norwegian date and time settings. Please, also change Today and Yesterday with proper date in chat list. Sometimes Teams does not update and Today was actually a day last week.
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Jonathan
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Come on Microsoft!
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J Scott Peter
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It's baffling to me that a major Microsoft product doesn't respect the settings of its own operating system. What's the point of Windows having a setting for date/time format, if their own products ignore it?
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Jos
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Any progress Alex? Europe is waiting!
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WooLand Polanski
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Looking forward to this one. I would also argue for a central location in O365 where you can set your preferred Language/Date Time settings that are then populated across ALL O365 service.
Many people do prefer to use English as app language but for date time/keyboard layout they usually wants their local settings.
MS, glad to see your are working on it but you must speed up on this and take note on this for future services where you always and always shall have proper language and date time settings implemented.
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Anonymous
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Unbelievable that all users are forced to use 12 hour clock. This is 2020 and localization and user settings have been around for decades.
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Matt
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Also these settings are not replicated should a user use the browser.. see attached example...
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Leana Sands
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Cant wait for the fix, frustrating my less confident users to no end and hindering adoption of Teams.
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Mohamed Adam
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This is too important for users, I don't know why it's not solved until now!!
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Andre
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Really, in 2020 this is till an issue? MS responses since 09/032017, unbelievable! Can Microsoft really be that ignorant?
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Gal
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Hi,
Please fix those issue (Format issue and Values themselves) - it is super confusing.
Thank, Gal.
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Charles Yeomans
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Again, please get everyone in Microsoft to understand ISO8601
That should be the default setting, as there is no misinterpretation of the date if it is used.
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Paul Stone
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As a new user of Teams this confused me initially and makes auditing a nightmare especially when the TIME is also US time not local (UK).
And I note this was requested 4 years ago. -
Johan Svärd
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GREAT! It will be fixed!
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Anonymous
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bump! will we see this bugfix before year 3021?
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Jared
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Pretty sure I found the manual way of addressing this issue: Settings in your profile icon top right, "General" > "Language" > "App language....". Changed this from USA to NZ and now my planner tasks are in the correct date format.
Hope this helps someone.
This worked for me - thanks so much!
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Jared
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Hello,
Is there a way to get my calendar out of military time and into a 12 hour format on Microsoft teams? If so, how?
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Anonymous
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Why is such a simple setting 'still on the backlog' YEARS later?? This is beyond idiotic ...
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Matt
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i also found that changing the settings in my profile to something else and back to uk worked for me too.
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D
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Pretty sure I found the manual way of addressing this issue: Settings in your profile icon top right, "General" > "Language" > "App language....". Changed this from USA to NZ and now my planner tasks are in the correct date format.
Hope this helps someone.
D.
