Tenant-wide LOCALE setting for SharePoint
It's nice that Microsoft have added the ability to have a TIMEZONE setting - for the entire tenant.
BUT - there's no way to set the 'locale'. This is in the regional settings for a SharePoint site.
And so I still have to go to each - and change to "English (Australia)" - otherwise I get the (only American) date format 03/29/2019
WHY didn't this get added with the 'tenant wide timezone' setting ??
I'm a bit surprised - it would have been easy to add LOCALE at the same time ??
Chris O'Connor
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Stephen Minhinnick
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C'mon Microsoft, this should be a quick and easy win. Just make this change happen.
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Alex B
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It is crazy that this is not following the tenant location and there is no way to change the default option from English (US) to my actual location.
Not even a PowerShell command to change site settings in mass, cmon Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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I did think this could be changed by MS. Surely there is a better way than running unsupported powershell or using site templates.
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Chris O'Connor
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Is there anyone listening to the UserVoice from Microsoft ?? This is still a problem - I have a script that I run once a week, that resets all of these locales - but it should be a Microsoft fix.
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Anonymous
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This needs to be added, and soon! The presumption that by default all sites require US settings is an appalling oversight, and should be configurable by the Tenant Admin.
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A Goodwin
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Because 'Murica. And that Microsoft traditionally have a really poor track record with usability. I agree with you Chris, this should have been a very obvious implementation.
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Most countries use DMY format, or YMD - rather than the MDY as used in Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and (oh yes), America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Usage_map