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jensjakobsen1966
Jan 24, 2022Brass Contributor
Date format needs to be DD/MM/YYYY
Hi When you create a new date column in SharePoint, the default format is MM/DD/YYYY. However, I live in a country where we use DD/MM/YYYY, and changing in the default format into that is not ap...
Sean_Palmariellodivine
Copper Contributor
Pernille-Eskebo please give a global option for this that can set default regional settings. Better Still set default based on tenant location ie uk datacentres default to uk settings. Changing per site is a pain and prone to admins forgetting to do this. TY
MattKirbySW
Nov 17, 2022Copper Contributor
Sean_Palmariellodivine - Absolutely! It drives me crazy that when users create a list in Sharepoint (or rather in Teams) I have to go into the site settings to change the locale - when I've asked for my data to be in UK datacenters.
If not possible to default based on data location, there should absolutely be a "for all sites in this tenant that are or ever will be, here's the locale to use".