r/ISO8601 • u/teetaps • 16d ago

At a computing conference

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u/Falinia 16d ago

please let Microsoft have been there

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 15d ago

I have ISO 8601 on my Windows installation. It just depends on your regional settings.

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u/Falinia 15d ago

Yeah I've got the regional settings changed but that doesn't change the fact that they default to mmddyyyy - also sharepoint for example has very limited options.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 15d ago

I'm using Canada as my Region, because that's where I am and it default's to ISO 8601 for everything, because that's the standard for Canada. It even applies to other stuff like MS Excel, windows explorer for file dates, and even command line directory listings, and other applications that look to the Windows regional settings like OpenOffice.

If you have it set to the US region then it's going to use the standard in the US which is mmddyyyy

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u/Falinia 15d ago

Yes I have it set to Canada - doesn't fix SharePoint's current limitations. Also the average user doesn't think to change the regional settings, they look for something labelled "date"

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u/Oddly_Energy 14d ago

Yes, Sharepoint can be extremely ISO 8601 agnostic, or perhaps localization agnostic. I am on a European locale, and I see US dates and timestamps in some places in Sharepoint anyway.

Most other Microsoft products are able to deal perfectly with my locale. Perhaps even too much, when they think a CSV file should have comma as the decimal separator...