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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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  • Dale Bailey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    BTW 11/06 in US style is November 6, not October 6. Nice example of why it should be changed.

  • EP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature should have been implemented on day 1. Why do I have to keep guessing what the date means? I mess up AM/PM notations as well since it's rarely needed. Teams is extremely backwards software (not only because of this). Considering how old this feature is I think it's relatively safe to say Microsoft doesn't care.

  • B.A. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have to agree that this is a bit strange for a Microsoft app *not* to utilize/inherit the settings of a Microsoft operating system.

    This needs to be fixed to either inherit the system settings or customize the format in the app.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seems like a no brainer. Please fix as I keep creating power BI Reports and I am constantly requested to provide a date format that we in the land down under can undertsand and I have no real answer except its an American program.

  • Safta Razvan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    you can clearly see that it was developed by americans who have no idea about how ppl in other parts of the world work ....DDMMYY FTW

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Additionally, numbers in excel sheets used within Teams are displayed incorrectly (for us Belgian people at least).
    When an excel sheet opens in Teams the numbers are displayed with a comma. When the same excel opens in Excel desktop numbers are displayed with a dot (.).
    I like to maintain the same consistent desktop user experience everywhere my users go, or work on.

    To my opinion, this is an important feature.
    Everyone in Europe using the English display language (UK excluded) must have this issue.
    Teams should adopt the windows 10 desktop settings.

  • Tom Ellison commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please fix this blunder! It should be A,B,C easy as 1,2,3 not B,A,C difficult as 2,1,3

    Come on Microsoft, this is a rookie mistake.

  • Chris Dixon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If you can't fix regional settings, then the app should use ISO 8601 (the international standard date format) NOT a regional date format for the US.

  • Johann Dirry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The problem might be, that in JavaScript engines, you don't get all the internationalization information you need, as you would ie. from CultureInfo in .NET.

    However, there should be the possibility to override the default setting in the options.

  • Keith Thompson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix this serious bug. Either use the Windows settings or let me specify the time and date format in the Teams app itself. Forcing the time and date format to match the language is absurd.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi. I understand that this have been a problem since 2016. Why isn`t this problem fixed yet? It should be an easy fix. As an European who uses DD/MM this is too frustrating

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PowerApps when used in Teams show the Currency as $ instead of £. The app is coded to use £ and works on browsers etc.

    Really annoying!! this is holding back the deployment of teams.

  • Sean Ellis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "App language determines the date and time format."

    Why? I use English(UK) but my preferred date and time format is ISO-8601. That's what is set up in my system preferences.

  • Tux commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    And this also applies to Linux! Please use locale settings ($LC_ALL / $LC_TIME).
    And do not assume that LC_TIME never deviates from $LANG

    $ echo $LANG
    en_US.UTF-8

    $ locale -ck LC_TIME | grep '^[td]_'
    d_t_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %R %Z"
    d_fmt="%d-%m-%Y"
    t_fmt="%R"
    t_fmt_ampm="%H:%M:%S"

    BTW thanks for making a native Linux client. So much better than all previous workarounds

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How am i meant to sell Power BI to my company when it can't even show dates correctly in the collaboration tool we use across the globe...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How is this only on the Backlog? It seems to affect my PBI Reports which are embedded in teams as well as documents.

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