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Change date format on Planner (from US to Europe-LatinAmerica)
Hi everyone,
Since the update on new planner I lost the "ability" of changing the date format from MM/DD to DD/MM only changing the "en-us" to "en-gb" in the address from the browser. Now the address changed and I'm suffering with this american date format.
Any way to change this to DD/MM?
Hi Pedro, unfortunately the only way I have found to have Planner show the desired DD/MM is to use Planner in Teams and set the Teams language to English (UK). It seems that some assumptions have been made in various M365 apps to just follow language as a way to decide date formats, rather than looking at the regional settings the user desires. Not ideal I know. Outside of Teams I couldn't get Planner to change from MM/DD and like you I see en-US in the initial Url, so I suspect this is driven by the organization setting. Maybe it just takes some time. To change the language in Teams, go to Settings (under the ... next to your profile picture in Teams) then Appearance and Accessibility and Language. I chose to explicitly set it, as my M365 language was already English (United Kingdom). In my testing I did see Teams detect this and offer to restart, but if you don't see this option after changing M365 Display Language to English (UK) then the explicit setting seems to force it. I'd suggest giving feedback too, through the app, that the applications should follow regional settings. You shouldn't have to put up with English UK spellings just to get the desired date format.
Best regards,
Brian
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Same issue here. Windows 10 Pro, Edge logged in with our MS organisation account, it keep the US format despiste the a gpo pushing en-uk. It worked for few days this week but now it shows again the US format. In Chrome it works. Is there a underway fix to expect?
same issue here, I pushed a gpo to move from en-us to en-uk and it worked for few days but now it came back to US format. I set my profile with En-UK too but nothing. I tested on Chrome and it works but not on Edge (default browser). We are logged with our MS account in Edge. In Teams's desktop it works but my user prefer the web. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi Pedro, unfortunately the only way I have found to have Planner show the desired DD/MM is to use Planner in Teams and set the Teams language to English (UK). It seems that some assumptions have been made in various M365 apps to just follow language as a way to decide date formats, rather than looking at the regional settings the user desires. Not ideal I know. Outside of Teams I couldn't get Planner to change from MM/DD and like you I see en-US in the initial Url, so I suspect this is driven by the organization setting. Maybe it just takes some time. To change the language in Teams, go to Settings (under the ... next to your profile picture in Teams) then Appearance and Accessibility and Language. I chose to explicitly set it, as my M365 language was already English (United Kingdom). In my testing I did see Teams detect this and offer to restart, but if you don't see this option after changing M365 Display Language to English (UK) then the explicit setting seems to force it. I'd suggest giving feedback too, through the app, that the applications should follow regional settings. You shouldn't have to put up with English UK spellings just to get the desired date format.
Best regards,
Brian
Hi Brian,
That worked for me as well, as you said, the only pain point is to use planner inside Teams which i don't like at all because it is too slow/lagging.
Thank you for that!
