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How to change the calendar date format in Microsoft Forms
Hi All,
I have created a form and used the date control but when i click on the date to select a date it is always defaulting to America date format 04/28/2022 but i want it to me Australian format which is 28/04/2022
Where can this be changed? What do i need to do.
When i save the form to a sharepoint list the date looks ok but on the form itself its wrong
Thanks in Advance
Patrick Rote I found this solution worked for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seT_nSQ0lX4
It's a browser setting issue.
Changing the browser language is not working for me, neither in Chrome nor in Firefox. And it is really annoing, since our business partner works with google forms and it works there.
I guess the European market is bigger than US, is not? Why all the settings are fixed to US market?
- Same here. I even removed English - US completely from Edge (it was number three on the preferred languages with English - UK at the top) - made no difference.
- this worked for me.
- This worked for me too.
Thank you so much.
Patrick Rote it's usually influenced by your browser's region/locale. For example I use Chrome, so go into Google and in the bottom right click settings -> search settings -> region settings and change it to Australia. See if that helps.
Rob
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Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)RobElliott I am having the same issue and my region in Google is already set to Australia. Any other ideas??
I had this issue and despite changing browser setting and 365 account languages I tried checking the language on the device.
Under Settings/Time & language/Language & Region is option to change Administrative language settings. Go to the Administrative tab.
Despite having everything else I could find being changed to English (UK) it appears that the "Welcome screen..." and "Language for non-Unicode..." still had entries referring to English (US).
For "Welcome screen..." click on "Copy settings...." and tick both options at the bottom then "OK".
For "Language for non-Unicode..." click on "Change system locale..." and change to English (UK) then "OK".
After restart, I now have dates in MS Forms showing as DD/MM/YYYY.
Hope this works for you too.
- Hey Patrick, did you find a fix for this one?
- Can I check something with you guys?
I hit the same issue, american dates when I wanted UK format. I changed the browser settings and it switched to the correct format.
Is that the problem fixed for EVERYONE who does my form from now, or is this going to happen for any user that completes the form?
If it is changing for everyone that is great, if each user has to ensure their settings are correct I will just use free text as I dont want to be supporting everyone who completes the form.
Thank you!
