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Deleted
Nov 25, 2016

Planner Regional Date Format

Our users are really starting to love Planner and it is becoming a major tool with Managing Projects. With no training at all they are finding it easy to use. One issue though is we are struggling to...
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Arne Degrande's avatar
Arne Degrande
Copper Contributor
Jan 17, 2018

What browser are you using to do this?

 

I am using Google Chrome and apparently, the Planner uses the language/time settings from Chrome (somehow...)

 

In the Advanced settings you can find "Language and input settings". There, my language used to be set to English (US). I deleted this and added English (UK). You can also change the order of the languages by dragging and dropping them.

 

E.g. I now use:

English (UK)

English [this seems to be something standard and cannot be removed]

Dutch

 

I also set the English (UK) language as the one in which Google Chrome should be displayed.

 

 

After some time, when re-opening the Planner, the date format was DD/MM!

 

Hope this helps

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Jan 24, 2018

    Thanks - I had the same issue and this worked like a charm. Now to start planning to set browser settings by Group Policy (though it would be good if Microsoft made it simpler to determine regional config for entire Office 365 tenancies) :)

  • __Pavlo__'s avatar
    __Pavlo__
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 06, 2022
    Thank you very much! After removing extra languages in Chrome and logging in to Planner again, the date format is displayed correctly.