Outlook Email uses US Date Format

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Outlook Email uses US Date Format

Oliver Howes 0

Hi there,

I have seen other threads with the same question/issue but it still persists. My outlook is set to German and my location is set as the UK and yet I have never been able to get the date in day/month/year format. It instead always appears in the American m/d/y format. I am using IOS outlook. How can this be solved? Is Microsoft still looking into the issue? Changing the language to UK English also doesn’t fix the issue.

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Answer 1

I see. In Outlook for iOS, scheduled send and drafts use the mailbox time zone and formatting service side, and if the time zone or format is not aligned it can default to US style, so sign in to Outlook on the web for each account, go to Settings, then View all Outlook settings, select General, then Language and time, set the time zone to your UK location and explicitly choose a UK date format, save, then force close and reopen the iOS app, this will resync the mailbox settings and correct how dates appear in scheduled and draft items.

Answer 2

Arlene D 36,020 Independent Advisor

Are both accounts added as separate mailboxes inside the Outlook app?

Oliver Howes 0 Reputation points

2026-04-06T01:48:43.7933333+00:00

Yes they are added as separate mailboxes, and I just tested my university email and it has the same issue when schedule sending

Answer 3

Arlene D 36,020 Independent Advisor

Hello, are you using an Outlook.com account or a work or school account?

On iOS, Outlook follows the app language and the regional format from your account and device, so check Settings on your iPhone, go to General, then Language and Region, set Region to United Kingdom, then open Outlook, go to Settings, select your account, and ensure the language matches UK English, then sign out and sign back in to refresh the sync, this will force Outlook to apply the correct regional date format.

Oliver Howes 0 Reputation points

2026-04-06T01:34:31.6766667+00:00

One quick note, I’ve just noticed that the dates are correct for my inbox, and the date format error seems to be occurring for schedule send messages and drafts. I am using a personal hotmail account and also a university email, both on my outlook ios app. My iPhone setting have the region as the UK, the language as German and then English, and the date format as day/month/year. I had tried changing my outlook to English UK but that didn’t fix it. However, the language being German should also work since every German speaking country uses day/month/year.

Answer 4

No information is available in the provided context about Outlook for iOS using the wrong (US) date format when the language/region are set to German and United Kingdom, nor about an active or planned fix from Microsoft for this specific issue.

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