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 →

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Warren responded · Sep 9, 2018

This feature is still on the backlog.

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Warren 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.

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Warren 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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Warren 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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Warren responded · Feb 12, 2018

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

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Warren 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

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Suphatra 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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Gavin commented · March 18, 2019 8:28 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Unbelievable that this level of bug goes ignored for so long. Makes a mockery of anyone interested in governance and using Teams. Makes even more of a mockery for those MS partners who have to deal with irate clients facing this issue.
Anonymous commented · March 13, 2019 1:05 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It should be possible for the Teams site administrator to set the regional settings for the site so that all users of the file get a common format. At the moment, working in an international environment, the same shared file gets a variety of dates.
TradeIT commented · February 19, 2019 7:15 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Date format should come from regional/location settings of the user...
Felix Attard commented · February 14, 2019 4:08 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Would be nice if the app could use language settings and date format according to settings on the workstation.
Anonymous commented · February 5, 2019 12:43 PM · Flag as inappropriate

As an international user I really hope this is fixed soon. I just had a call scheduled wrong by 12 hours due to me using the Enligsh US language UI, which forces me to use AM/PM time formats.

I suggest that you enable users to choose for them selves the time format, regardless of the UI language. Copying WIndows locale settings is nice, but please also let these settings to be set individually, as there might be scenarios where you want to keep separate settings.
Anonymous commented · January 31, 2019 5:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

While we're at it, get rid of the childish so-called "friendly" date formats for modification (etc.) dates. I have "Yesterday", "29/01" and "28/01/2018" for three files next to each other.
Nobody EVER complained about being given actual dates in a consistent format but some prat decided that inconsistency is better.
I suppose you could argue that MS is consistently inconsistent, but that's not really a positive!
André Haddad commented · January 31, 2019 5:04 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please standardize all date and time format according to the user's profile.

Some date appears as DD MMMM YYYY, MM-DD, YY-MM-DD, 2h AGO (this word is not translated in a french settings), Today, Yestesday.

Time is displayed as AM/PM or 24 h

In Forms, date field contains the format value « YYYY-MM-DD » which is not translated to other languages.

A OneNote in Teams, the date and time appear as DDDD, MMMM DD YYYY (in English).

This should not be considered as an enhancement, but a correction to bad quality control.

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Dan commented · January 29, 2019 12:51 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Although you can change the date format in settings, it would be better if Teams could use the date format used on the machine. We have to tell every user how to change it to UK format. Very annoying!
Magnus commented · January 23, 2019 6:34 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I totally agree. 24 hour format is needed.
Mertsch commented · January 18, 2019 1:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes absolutely! Try with English (UK) which shows am/pm while all other dates are in 10:30.
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.
Kevin Lauermann commented · January 7, 2019 6:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Settings should let you choose:
1) display language
2) date/time format
3) calendar display format (popup on due date) for example Monday to Sunday instead of Sunday to Saturday
Kevin Lauermann commented · January 7, 2019 6:31 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Settings should let you choose:
1) the calendar display Monday to Sunday too. (in Schedule mask and on the popup windows on due date)
2) date/time format
3) language
Aytekin commented · January 3, 2019 11:12 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Awating the fix. It is very annoying.
Ekij commented · January 3, 2019 9:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Teams should use the system settings.
If for some reason if felt the need to use other settings the one to use is the ISO international date format (YYYY-MM-DD) this format can be understood by everyone without confusion.
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.
Gustaf Sahlström commented · November 23, 2018 8:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Currently, the 'Day' view in the Meetings tab does not use the date/time format set for the user in O365. It always uses 12hr am/pm format.

Note that the 'Agenda' view in the Meeting tab does take these settings into consideration.