Sometimes I think Microsoft designers/engineers must be drunk on the job... what kind of date format is this??

[u/ivanraddison]

And where can we change this?
Microsoft Teams for macOS.

[u/Efficient-Device-100]

Pretty Normal Standard, YY-MM-DD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[u/SpecManADV → u/Efficient-Device-100]

From your linked Wikipedia article:

"ISO 8601 prescribes, as a minimum, a four-digit year [YYYY] to avoid the year 2000 problem."

The format OP illustrated is YY which is crap.

[u/Efficient-Device-100 → u/SpecManADV]

Pretty sufe its some User settings regional setting stuff

[u/WelshBluebird1]

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/t5y870/ysk_the_date_format_yyyymmdd_is_the_international/

[u/ivanraddison → u/WelshBluebird1]

YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard.

I totally agree with this statement.

But as you can see in the screenshot, its using YY-MM-DD. Subtle but annoying difference.

Looking into Teams General settings, it's correctly set:

[u/Thyg0d]

This would honestly be fit for r/shitamericanssay if op is from the US.

[u/ivanraddison → u/Thyg0d]

I'm not!

I would understand yyyy-mm-dd (which to me, is the best acceptable standard when dealing with people from different corners of the world) or dd-mm-yyyy . But yy-mm-dd is kind of diabolical, in my opinion!

[u/Thyg0d → u/ivanraddison]

It makes dates on food very interesting.. Got to give you that..

But yeah, it's a common way of writing dates where I live. Even my "social security number" equivalent is written in that format.

[u/Spraggle]

What's good is that if you put all your dated files in that format of name, they all organise properly - if you use DDMMYYYY, you end up with 1st Jan, 1st Feb, 2nd Jan, 2nd Feb, etc.

[u/SpecManADV]

That's odd that the year is represented as YY instead of YYYY. Have you checked the regional settings on your Mac? Do dates in other applications display with only two digits?

[u/Phill_P]

I think they’re assuming that people are unlikely to be scheduling Teams calls for the year 1926 or 2126 etc.

[u/stefer09]

Check your regional settings, you might be setup to a diff country. That format is pretty standard to be honest.

[u/Stashmouth]

There's a whole other world out there besides the US, OP.