Forum Discussion
Date Formatting
- Hi!
There are multiple uservoices open for this here including
https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box/suggestions/37496209-date-format
https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box/suggestions/18409984-allow-uk-date-format-in-forms-please
Would recommend you vote for them - fast becoming one of the top requests and annoyances about Forms. I think Microsoft will pick this up in time.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
I know this is an old thread, but as someone new to forms, I spent a frustrating 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get the date format to show as dd/mm/yyyy. I followed instructions on changing my regional settings in Office 365 to no avail but eventually figured out what the problem was on my PC.
I use 2 browsers, Chrome and Chromium, I opened a shared form in Chrome, date format was in dd/mm/yyyy. As I'm just starting to learn about forms, I decided to recreate the form as practice - but on my form, the date format was m/d/yyyy. No regional settings with office would change this.
What was the difference? I was creating my own form in the Chromium browser, the one I was copying was opened in Chrome. If I opened my one in Chrome, date format was dd/mm/yyyy. Open it or the shared one in Chromium - date format m/d/yyyy.
It was the browser's regional settings that were giving me the US date format!!
Went into Chromium settings, People, Advanced, changed language from US to English (United Kingdom), removed the US language and now my date format was showing dd/mm/yyyy.
I still think it's a bit silly not to simply have an option to change the format within forms, but hopefully this will help someone else having the same issue!
