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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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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When the majority of the World uses DMY date format (https://bit.ly/1XJoXfT) it's just silly that Microsoft isn't releasing all their products with this kind of flexibility.

    Please make this a priority before I get another end user asking to use Google Forms.

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a deal breaker for our company, the USA format fro dates is way to confusing for our users, we will end up with horrendous confusion with dates, please allow for the UK version of dates to be used.

  • Alan Cossey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, please, please do this. There are people who live outside the USA. Honestly, there are.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Non-US date formatting would be useful...i.e. dd/mm/yy. I personally find the clearest format to a combination of numbers and letters - for example '15 May 2018'.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Mistaken data, real life errors, real live people and plans disrupted, disputes, time spent resolving disputes, frustration, anger and did I mention frustration.

  • Alan Cossey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Pull your finger out, Microsoft. There was the same problem on Excel surveys and you ignored us there too.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix this. We really want to use Microsoft Forms but it causes such confusion in the UK if we can't change the date format from the US version!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I did manage to get close to what I wanted. Search all settings for "time" or "language". Select "Language and time zone". If I let my language to English (United States), the closest I got to a date format suiting me was "01-Sep-16" for September 1st 2016. When switching to English (United Kingdom) I could opt for "01/09/2016". It should work across all apps. But strange you don't have all combinations of languages and date formats.

  • Rob T commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree with others. We won't be(can't) using ms forms with american-only date format

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are not using forms for collecting dates as having the month first doesn't work in UK and so causes lots of incorrect data collection. Please fix this ASAP.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Bizarre that this hasn't been implemented yet - the risk of deadline confusion means this essentially denies the world outside the US of the functionality of Forms. Office 365 should really be discounted for RotW

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