Nov 25 2016 09:16 AM
Nov 25 2016 09:16 AM
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 get it to show English (UK) date format. We are different in the UK and like our days before our months.
Anybody in the UK been able to change their settings?
Nov 27 2016 02:31 AM
Dec 13 2016 04:47 AM
Similar problems around old Europe region with like DD-MM-YYYY format. I see that some of all settings coming from tenant location when it is created. Corporations across globe has problems with international settings also.
Jan 09 2018 02:49 AM
It is now 2018 and we still don't have regional date format!.....
Jan 17 2018 02:29 AM
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
Jan 17 2018 02:30 AM
Jan 24 2018 02:41 PM - edited Jan 24 2018 02:42 PM
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) :)
Jan 25 2018 03:45 PM
Hey all!
Thanks for your concern and patience with this issue. We've found a solution that should relieve a lot of these issues and hope to complete this work soon. In the meantime, you can change your browser settings (as outlined in other comments) to reflect your preferred format as a workaround.
Best,
Joanna Parkhurst, PM Planner
Nov 14 2018 06:55 AM
We are still waiting for this solution to be applied.
Come on Microsoft, a tiny proportion of the world uses the US date format - (about 4%); it's a non-standard, minority format.
Please get the fix out as incorrect date formats create real world governance and clinical risks in our industry
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