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Date format microsoft teams
Hello everyone, I work as an IT Support Tech in a company. Today, a user came with a date format issue on excel but only in teams. She tried to put a french date format in teams, but the ...
You use MM/DD/YYYY????? You're not English. it's DD/MM/YYYY in the UK. At least it has been since I went to School in the 70's
Thanks Bikky - where it says "In the UK (That's England, Scotland and Northern Ireland) we use MM/DD/YYYY as you do in France." I did of course mean DD/MM/YYYY, so call it an important 'inadvertent typo'.
My point is this - the date format of any windows programme that follows Microsoft's own rules should get it's locale information from the workstation and use whatever that's set to to display currency, date etc. The excuse for teams appears to be that because it's a cloud based app it has to be set up individually by each user. To me that looks like a rather lame excuse.....