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
RobElliott wrote:PaulaSillars this must be something to do with the regional settings made by Office 365 global admins because all our dates in Microsoft Forms are in dd/mm/yyyy format by default.
Rob
Los Gallardos
RobElliott I am the global admin and I don't see anything in the Admin Center for regional settings other than the location of my tenant which is set to Australia which is correct.
Other applications including Sharepoint and OneDrive have the correct date formats and language settings, so far the only app with the US date formats issue is Forms.
If you try to use a form inside a modern sharepoint site with a Forms webpart, forget about it, it will only show with US date format.
APC-andre Yes - it's extremely frustrating to set a sit collection's regional settings to something other than US English only to find that most of the dates rendered inside the collection ignore the regional setting.
Re the new Edge. I filed a bug about it ignoring both the user locale and the language settings of the existing default browser at install time. I received a notification that a fix for this is coming. However this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of date issues in Microsoft Online products. If the environments are simply going to ignore your settings, then what can you do.
Mike Williams
There is a solution to the forms on the modern SharePoint sites.you will have to use the embed Web Part with iframe and change the browser language to UK/Australia/etc English.
Just have to play with the height."<iframe width="800px" height="1500px" src="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FORMID&embed=true" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"> </iframe>"
APC-andre That is not a solution: changing the browser locale is required for every Forms deployment, and is non-trivial. [NB language and locale are distinct properties: the former relates to UI text, and the former to measured units like time, distance and temperature]
There are also parts of SharePoint that respect neither the site collection locale nor the browser locale setting.