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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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  • Dan Saul Knight commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Microsoft,

    I have been using O365 Planner and it has become apparent that you may have missed a key piece of information when putting together your requirements. Just to let you know, there are other countries in the world outside of the USA. I have done some investigation and can provide quite a good diagram that demonstrates this.

    You can find it here --> http://geology.com/world/world-map.gif

    In the other locations on the diagram other than the section marked "USA", the date is written in an ordinate format. This means the variables are listed by the frequency of change. The "day" changes most often, so this is written first. Following that is the "month" and finally the "year".

    I am hoping that now you have this information you will be able to add an option to your otherwise excellent Planner software that allows users to select which method of communicating the date they prefer.

    Many thanks.

  • Martin Russ commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Support international date formats - so totally obvious I'm astonished it wasn't at the top of Planner's specification!

  • will list commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please implement user-selectable date format, defaulted to either machine settings or organization settings for office 365.

  • Tim Ould commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a great improvement. I've been trialling Planner but we couldn't use it unless it used local date formats - the potential for confusion is too great.

  • 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.

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