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Asish Padhy's avatar
Asish Padhy
Brass Contributor
Sep 06, 2017

Published Date Format not set properly on Modern Site Pages in SharePoint online - AU Region

Has anyone looked into an issue with date format of Published date on Modern Site Page? It is somehow setting to US date format even though the regional setting is set to Australia. Have ruled out the user profile setting as it is set to use the option by site administrators.

The same issue also occurs in Communication site pages.

  • I've noticed the same issue on our Modern Site pages however we had a tenancy migration some time ago and when that was done a mistake was made as the tenancy kept with default US settings. Once this has been done it cannot be changed. Previously only affected dates in the Admin Centre.

    • Asish Padhy's avatar
      Asish Padhy
      Brass Contributor

      Ok, in our case the tenant and site is all in AU regional settings. The date format in Classic SharePoint view is also correct. It is just the publish date that is the wrong format.

       

      Also raised a Microsoft Ticket which was closed on the context that I should raise an user voice and would be resolved by Product Team.

      • Trevor Bramwell's avatar
        Trevor Bramwell
        Brass Contributor

        If you raise and want my vote then send me a link and you'll get it :)

    • Rob Ellis's avatar
      Rob Ellis
      Bronze Contributor

      Looking in a couple of tenants, this seems to have been fixed in the last week or so.

  • JamesHogg's avatar
    JamesHogg
    Copper Contributor
    Unsure if related, but our site started doing same thing that I noticed today for Publish Date, with format different for different users. It was ignoring the setting "Regional Settings Defined by site administrators". Checked Chrome Language, Computer Region and Microsoft Account Region and all correct, but then in this page the setting was US region https://{sharepointdomain}-my.sharepoint.com/personal/{usernameunderscored}/_layouts/15/regionalsetng.aspx.

    After correcting and doing a Ctrl+F5 of Chrome to refresh cache the date displayed correctly.

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