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The date format is fixed to mm/dd/yyyy, could this please be selectable based on your region - for example we use dd/mm/yyyy

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In development  ·  AdminPlanner Team (Product Manager, Planner) responded  · 

As an update, since we’ve still been seeing issues around date formatting, so we’re pursuing another fix that should help: If you’re using Planner within Teams, we will default to using the same language/local as Teams.

If you’re seeing this issue persist outside of Teams and your language/locale is set properly for your Office account, please let us know in the comments below!

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The Planner Team

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm using Planner via Firefox. Firefox regional settings are set to Australia, my Planner settings are set to UK. But I'm still seeing the US format. Please help! :o)

  • Tony Whittam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have my langauge in Teams set to English (UK). In planner, dates display correctly but input incorrectly. So, 2 Nov 2020 displays as 2/11/2020 - correct - but if set a due date using the keyboard "2/11/2020" is stored as 11 Feb 2020 - incorrect.
    Actually I have an update to this. The display of 2 Nov is correct (2/11/2020) in the task list, BUT it is incorrect (11/2/2020) in the task dialog that opens if you double click a task.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    While you're at it, could you please have the week start on Monday instead of Sunday?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Same issue as everybody else. I'm in Sweden and get the "wrong" format whatever I do.

  • Kerrie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Oh come on -this was first raised 4 years ago and it has been over a year that this has been In Development - PLEASE PLEASE fix this, it is sooooooo confusing for our users

  • Kerrie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I CAN NOT BELIEVE this is STILL an issue. Why when my regional settings are set to English (Australia). You can manage it for Outlook in a browser why not Planner. There are other countries besides the USA!!

  • Dave Rawstorne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Using Version 1.3.00.21759 of Teams (an August 2020 release) I changed my Language in Teams->Settings to English (New Zealand) and then chose 'Save and Restart'. Dates in Planner are now correct for New Zealand.
    Remember to 'Save and Restart' for it to take effect!

  • Anon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am still getting my dates on the task as US time based instead of Australia. Please help

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    New to planner, just set up my first plan in the hope of selling it to my team, and suddenly I realise all the dates are back to front. All my regional settings are correct for O365 & SharePoint. Planner is supposed to seamlessly be part of O365, and yet 4 YEARS after release it still doesn't integrate regional settings? This is unbelievably poor response from Microsoft. I'm using Planner outside of Teams

  • John Leonard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd like to add my voice to this too - this really needs to change; my locale is set to UK everywhere I can find it and the planner data in teams is showing a UK format, so why on earth can't the web app do the same?

    Also irritating to find that the last comment from MS was over a year ago.

  • Stuart Matheson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am experiencing this issue on tasks.office.com in Chrome and Firefox. No matter what date format I choose, after saving the settings and reloading the page, dates are still displayed m/d or mm/dd/yyyy.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    can microsoft please change the date settings to cater to regional differences, i.e. dd/mm/yy

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Pretty sure I found the manual way of addressing this issue: Settings in your profile icon top right, "General" > "Language" > "App language....". Changed this from USA to NZ and now my planner tasks are in the correct date format.

    Hope this helps someone.

    D.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Planner is a great tool - but please fix this date issue - how can we plan when we are in this date situation 05/06 or 06/05? So confusing - please can we have GB dates as standard when Teams is already set as GB.

  • Matt Goodstadt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In Teams it's fine, but still, in the planner I'm looking at a task for today, (5 June), which shows as 6 May!
    It's bad enough having to use American English.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a serious weakness in the software, even changing to a long format for the month would be better than the current situation.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Nice to see in 4 years MS haven't recognised there are users outside of the US using different date formats..

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