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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When is UK date format coming to forms? This is causing us a headache as our forms auto populate into Lists which is in UK date format so is basically pointless to us right now.
How many years and hundreds of comments are required before you'll acknowledge this needs addressing?
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Richard
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would we be eventually able to choose dd/mm/yyyy format in MS Forms?
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Anonymous
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I also concur that we need the dd/mm/yyyy format. Given the number of comments since 2017, why has this not been actioned?
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rahul sharma
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Yes, we need the dd/mm/yyyy format in MSForms. The US date format is confusing to people who are used to the dd/mm/yyyy format all their lives. It is available every where except in MSForms.
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Gabriel Gordon
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Since 2017 and yet no option to change format for dates? LatinAmerica does not speak mm/dd/yyyy, either. We need this to make Forms useful for dates
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Anonymous
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Yes please. I want to use Forms Answers and place them in a word-document in my language and the date format is always american. EVEN THOUGH when I go into the form it asks me in format dd/mm/yyyy...the output will still be yyyy-dd-mm
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Anonymous
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This needs to be done. How has Microsoft not done this yet??
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Anonymous
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Please add a function to use autocrat to generate pdf and change date format to something else than US.
These products are used outside the USA and they shouldn'T impose their date format on the reste of the world! -
Anonymous
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Why is this not done already my goodness. It is so problematic at times. 11/3/2020 US is 3rd Nov 2020 whereas if reader not aware US time is being used reads it in Aus as 11 March 2020
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Praveen Choudhary
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I have the same issue.
I am using a Form to capture Absence Requests, which updates a SharePoint Calendar.
While most of the users select a date from the drop down calendar feature, some prefer to type the date directly - however, the only option is to type it in the US format MM/DD/YYYY, which has led to errors.
The request is to allow alternative formats such as the UK DD/MM/YYYY. Since all our users are in the UK, it does not make sense to ask them to adopt the US format for this task. -
Anonymous
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This format is indeed very confusing for users who don't use US date format. Please give us option to change it.
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Anonymous
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This is definitely needed.
Does it matter which browser people use? I'm using Edge.
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Anonymous
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Really need to give us this option. I'd rather use a single line of text with a subtitle of Format: dd/mm/yy, than the current date option as it's just confusing.
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Lydia
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Please! this is so critical, 90% of the globe uses dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd not the idiotic USA M/d/Y format! I have set my region in every place to resolve this across 365 but can't do forms. makes the date picker option in forms useless for us as an organization particularly in public facing forms
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Anonymous
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Please updated the Setting in forms to enable people to change the date format. UK English format dd/mm/yyyy is standard in the UK, and the company I work in does not recognise the US date format
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Hairul Effendy Ab Maulod
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Malaysian user here. I require date format in ms form as DD/MM/YY
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Nicholas P.
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For real???? 3 year???????????????????????? at least the &lang=el-GR worked for me
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Ricardo
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Microsoft people, could you please share an update on this one?
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Anonymous
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This is clearly something required for ANY place that is not in USA.
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Alex
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Same here!