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.
Steve Nesbitt
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Anonymous
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Agree, all regions have different formats and all accounts have a region specified. This should be a basic feature so I see it as a bug. Common guys Google are way ahead with this one.
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Anonymous
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I would also like to have the option for an date option more relevant to Australia the US option does not work for us.
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Anonymous
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Please allow users to change the date format. As a user said below this makes it seem like you either don't care about non-US users or you don't care about Forms enough to bother changing it.
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Anonymous
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We need this too. How would it go down in the US if they could only use day / month / year format!
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Anonymous
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Come on, Microsoft, we know you can do this!! Such a simple fix. As it is, it gives the impression that you don’t really care what any of your users outside the US want, which is only going to drive us to other platforms that do.
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Anonymous
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I only want the user to select the year in yyyy format. But not able to do so.
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Anonymous
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So important to have date formats correct for the region to ensure input is spot on. Something that Google have had for a while now..
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Anonymous
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This causes real issues especially when interrogating excel data. For example using formulas with dates. Even if you convert the date to regional date setting, the underlying format is USA, and so dates must still be input in USA format eg. Input date into one cell and using that date in a formula to find if that date sits after a start date and before an end date.
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Dedicated Form User
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Looking at the comments below it would appear to be a very common request.
Please allow a date format option as soon as possible.
The world does not revolve around the 'American' way of doing things contrary to popular (American) belief. I also think that technically this would not be a difficult option to add. C'mon Microsoft you are better than this. -
Regan
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The whole world does not reside in the USA. We need to have regional settings that reflect our needs, not just those of people living in the USA.
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Max Goss
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UK users: DD/MM/YYYY - I think either Forms should allow the creator to choose a date format or it should default to the regional settings of the user / tenant. US format is really confusing if you're not use to using it and makes using date questions problematic
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Jonathan Hull
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More than just regional date formats, but allow for the form to allow for a range of date formats (Year, Month - Year, Quarter). Otherwise the date has more granularity than is needed.
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Anonymous
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South African Users require DD/MM/YYYY format
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Anonymous
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Please include DD/MM/YYYY format, the current format is a pain to redo the entire work and loss to productivity and also causes lot of error.
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Anonymous
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Please please please make it possible to change the date format so the rest of the world doesn't have to swear at MS so much.
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Rhonda Thorpe
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Yes please. In NZ and this can get confusing. More useful format would be dd/mm/yyyy for this side of the world.
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Anonymous
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Yep, please allow this feature to become a thing.
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Kalyan Ram Kusuma
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I require the date format in dd/mm/yyyy. Please sort this. Thank you.
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Sean Mahoney
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This is definitely needed!
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Anonymous
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Please get this fixed guys. Australia needs your attention