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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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  • Tim Donovan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If you execute this in Chrome console (developer tools) it will temporarily fix the date format:

    $('.todo-taskboard-card-dueDate').each(function (index, value) {
    var date = new Date($(this).attr('title'));
    $(this).children().text(date.getFullYear() + '-' + (date.getMonth()+1) + '-' + date.getDate());
    });

    If someone can wrap this into a Chrome plugin or a Greasemonkey script and trigger it on page load, or page change....This took me 5 mins and MS want 6 months to fix this..?!

  • Hugh Miller commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yet another Office 365 feature that I can't get user engagement on due to an amateurish flaw. No department head willing to approve using this application with the date format as it is.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow, cannot believe this isn't supported. And if the below comment is true about it taking MS 6 months to fix this..then even more wow. Seriously, this could be a 5 minute code change to make everything yyyy/mm/dd.

  • Neil Jarman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can't believe they have not baked international date formatting into the code! I have just been told by a Microsoft engineer it will take between four and six MONTHS to deliver this. I would get sacked if I told any of my users to wait that long!! Clearly the UK doesn't matter to Microsoft.

  • JF commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Same issue from Australia. More than anything it is just another example of really amateurish testing and market focus. Microsoft - you've got the money, get the competence.

  • MSE commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a pretty basic feature that needs to be added. it's more a question of when rather than if. But in order to get engagement and buy-in from users, we need these basic features to do so.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would think this date format is something that must have, otherwise is getting confusing for all the users.

  • Timothy Merridew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree, this needs to be configurable, or needs to follow the date format of the user in their regional settings, as I've got staff who are struggling with the American date format

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Really angry that I called your "sales team" as I wanted to use this software specifically and they knew I was located in the United Kingdom. Apparently it was "no problem", now I see that it is completely unusable for my staff, No way to complain and I am now stuck with your unusable software, well done Microsoft.

  • Robert Skey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I played with MS Planner for 5 minutes. Spotted the UK date problem. Went straight back to Trello. The other thing I'd like to see is colour options for the individual buckets. But useless to European project managers and teams as currently configured.

  • Rowan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, this needs to be tied to the Office365 settings. Users keep getting confused because every other date is in UK format but Planner, and only planner, is stuck in US format.

  • Roxane commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree!!!! Our business is in the UK and this is very confusing for us - please please sort asap! I think there's actually a setting somewhere where you can say UK or US date format - we tried setting everything in Office 365 to UK but still The Planner insists on being US format. This will cause probs, pls fix! Cheers,

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed!! I'm using planner to organise staff and having the dates in the US format is going to cause me problems because I get very confused when the months could be days!!

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