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Ralph_Wijbenga's avatar
Ralph_Wijbenga
Copper Contributor
Nov 24, 2023

Date format in Teams on the search results

When my collegues and i search in Teams, the searchresults are given with a American dateformat.

All settings in Teams and SharePoint are in Dutch.
How can we change this?

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  • LeonPavesic's avatar
    LeonPavesic
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    Hi Ralph_Wijbenga,

    you can change the date format from the Windows settings by opening Windows Settings, clicking on Time & language, clicking on Date & time, and choosing the date/time format.


    Teams should respect your date/time format from the Windows settings.

    If you’ve already set your regional settings correctly in Teams, SharePoint, and your operating system, but Teams is still displaying dates in the US format, it might be a limitation of Teams.

    If this is the case, I would recommend submitting feedback through the Teams app by selecting Help in the bottom lower-left of Teams and then choosing to Suggest a feature or Give Feedback to let Microsoft know about this issue.

    Change settings in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support
    MS Teams: Is there a way to change date/time format WITHOUT changing - Microsoft Community
    How do I change the date format in Teams? I need (DD/MM/YYYY)? - Microsoft Community


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    Kindest regards,


    Leon Pavesic
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    • Ralph_Wijbenga's avatar
      Ralph_Wijbenga
      Copper Contributor
      At this moment there is no solution to the dateformat problem. It is a build-in dateformat in the resultspage in Teams when you drill down to the found Files page.

      Thanx for helping on the issue.
      • Chris_Zawodny's avatar
        Chris_Zawodny
        Copper Contributor

        Ralph_WijbengaI found that the Language setting in Teams changed the display of the date. Previously I had English (United States) as the default - I changed this to English (New Zealand) and now the dates show as dd/mm/yy.

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