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Ability to change date format to correspond to the user's region

Hi. In the question type where a date is required currently the only option (as far as I can see) is the US format. Can you kindly give us the ability to choose the region settings for this please? Thanks.

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  • Filip commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow functionality from Excel to allow date formatting. US format is normally not expected from others which may cause errors in obtaining replies

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How about we make the forms usable with basic settings?

    Must have settings:
    * Text editor - cannot use bold fonts? 'cmon its 2020
    * Date format - ability to change the date format no way we are stuck with M/ddd/yyyy ?!
    * Removing the numbering in the forms - or at least renumbering option in new sections
    * Option to add time - with hour and minute picker
    * Customize the email my responses message (ATM not really clear)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow the other 95.6% of the world population to choose a sensible date format..

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We can't use Forms with the date format in the US format, please add an option to change it to reflect the regional settings

  • Emma commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow the users in the parts of the world that aren't America to be able to have the date showing correctly for our countries

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When having the direct link to the Form the date format relies on the Browser's language settings but when you use a form web part on the modern SharePoint site, it shows only in American date format.

    Ridiculous. Please fix it Microsoft Forms team. If people don't pay attention (which is common), they will provide wrong dates !!!

    Australian and UK users have to read: Pay attention to date format.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When having the direct link to the Form the date format relies on the Browser's language settings but when you use a form web part on the modern SharePoint site, it shows only in American date format.

    Ridiculous. Please fix it Microsoft Forms team. If people don't pay attention (which is common), they will provide wrong dates !!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's useless without being able to change the date format!

    It's not a suggestion it's a basic bit of functionality.

  • Steve commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The date field in Forms should also be flexible to list Month/Year or just Year. I have forms that do not require the Day field and forcing users to pick a random day in a month or the first day of the month adds to the confusion.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please provide the option to change the date format. This does NOT depend on the browser locale setting as far as I can see. I tried Firefox, Edge (W10), Edge Chromium and IE7. Almost none of them have an option to change the locale/date format of the browser as stated by people in this post. I know this because my system / browser settings are correct for my region (Australia) and yet the date picker on the form defaults to US

  • Mike Williams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The date format in Forms is dependent on the browser locale setting (which unfortunately in UK and Australia often default to the US settings they have at download time) which does take a bit of work to update for each browser on every desktop. However it would help if users could override with their Microsoft user locale preferences or the form designer could specify a date mask.

    Advice to corporate users: make your IT departments use a policy to set English(UK), English(Australia) etc as the default for your browsers.

  • Marc Evans commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please just add the facility to change the date format allowing the millions of users outside the US to make effective use of a nice little tool.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This set of requests has been in User Voice for 2 years. It's way beyond a joke now.

    Time to call Satya I think and talk about whether this is empowering every person on teh planet, etc.

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