Solved Calendar app time/date format

eager2008

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Using Windows 8 Pro (RTM)
Seems like the calendar app does not obey the language settings.
W8 display language is English (US I think) and that is the way I want it even if I want day names and time format as choosen in language settings.

Hints ?
 

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Hi eager2008. Welcome to the forum.

Right click the app -> Uninstall

Reboot.

Open Store (tile) -> Mouse curser to upper right (Charms menu for store app slides out) -> Find (magnifying glass) -> type calendar. It will bring up the app to install again.

Please let us know if that works or not. Good luck.
 

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Have you checked the "Regional and Languages" section in Control Panel?
 

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Thanks both of you, however re-installation didn't change anything and yes I have checked "Region and Language" (b.t.w. now splitted into "Region" and "Language"), this is what I meant by "...day names and time format as choosen in language settings".
The main thing is that most europeans are not at all comfortable with a 12 hours clock, personally I can never learn AM/PM :)

Anyone, more hints ?
 

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Sorry that didn't work.

Try Mouse pointer bottom left corner a mini Start screen appears -> right click (a "guts" menu appears) -> Control Panel -> Language -> Change date, time, or number format. You'll find 3 tabs on Region properties. Time/day formats, Location, Administrative.

You can configure all there. Please let us know if that works.
 

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The main thing is that most europeans are not at all comfortable with a 12 hours clock, personally I can never learn AM/PM :)

My region is set to Canada and for a test I went into Region in Control Panel and set both the short and long time to 24 hour clock for time settings. My Calendar App changed to 24 Hour clock.
 

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The main thing is that most europeans are not at all comfortable with a 12 hours clock, personally I can never learn AM/PM :)

Anyone, more hints ?
Main thing is that, how is the time format shown in your taskbar? Do you mean to say that though your taskbar shows time in 24 hours format, the calendar app shows time in 12 hr? Is this the case?

My view is that your taskbar is set to 12 hr format. To change this you need to change the settings in "Clock, Language, and Regions" in Control Panel.

Control Panel -> Clock, Language, and Regions -> Region

You will see the options for Short time and Long time.

I think your one is set as:
Short time: hh:mm tt
Long time: hh:mm:ss tt/ h:mm:ss tt

Here the "tt" stands for AM/PM.

Change the Long time and Short time to anything that doesn't have "tt" in it.

I think your problem should be solved this way.
Hope I could help :)
 

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HippsieGypsie: Same as windows "region" or Windows Control panel" etc., there are many ways to Rome..
And yes, of course I tried all this, as I said before: this is what I meant by "...day names and time format as choosen in language settings".

R0bR: Do you use RTM ? (I think it was different on the previews).

Arpan: No, I did not set hh:mm tt, my setting is HH:mm (for short) and HH:mm:ss (for long)
Even the "First day of week" is set to monday (in my language though.
The taskbar clock shows time as expected (according to HH:mm).

Any more ?
 

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I am using 8 EE. With this version, it didn't give the option to select time zone. Had to afterwards. Had a little trouble, but when I synced with M$ clock, all is fine. Did you try that?

If you did, it's beyond me. I just don't know what to tell you other than perhaps something's wrong with the version. Consider reinstall. You may be better off with RP.
 

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Thanks to all, I think I found the problem.
The problem was that both english and my native language was added in Control Panel/Languages.
When I removed the English all is well.
I am still a little confused regarding this setting because I have no (display) language pack installed and do not understand why this
"dual language setting" some kind overrides my explicit setting regarding time/date etc.
 

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I'm glad you made progress, but seems to me that it's semi-solved. Are you getting exactly what you want?

To be honest, I'm a U.S. American. I only know U.S. English. It's default so far as the first choice on the installation screen of an English version. I haven't dropped down that choice menu but once in Win 98 1st edition. LOL! So these language options are new to me.

Obviously you speak a few. After setting all the choices in advanced setting of Language, are you able to choose options and get them your way? If not, there must be a flaw in the OS?
 

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I think I am getting exactly what I want.
Taskbar clock and "pop-up clock" (desktop and charm-menu clock in Metro, sorry Modern UI) obeys language/region settings, Calendar likewise.
I do not have any mail at the moment (and I do not understand why MS has not enabled the e-mail app to use POP3), so I cannot verify.
It seems like calendar tile text partly follows display language (English in my case), it displays e.g. "My appointment" (in my language), "Tomorrow" (in english ) and then a big "28" followed by the name of tomorrow (Tuesday in english, but my language is shown).
I guess that if I install my own display language, then all is consistant, however, I hate using non-english display language for many reasons, e.g. I do not "read" menu items, I "pattern recognize" them by e.g. positions in the menu. Also so much documentation, samples etc. are in English.

In other words, a lot of mix, I am used to some mixing, I just cannot bare a 12 hour clock (and neither the U.S. way of denoting dates, e.g. M/d/yyyy)
 

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OK good. I'm on my 7 side right now, I had a Hotmail personal and a business account, and a Google account, which are pop 3, set up in the Win 8 mails app, so it should work. I haven't configured that in my EE for I'm using Outlook preview at the moment. Keep in mind that I sign into my PC with a .Live account.

I hear you on American standards. We are so different from the rest of the world. I have to use the inch/foot/yard/mile measuring standard professionally as a builder when metric would be so much easier. Instead of figuring anything by 10 we have to figure it by 12. Then what's goofier is that surveyors and that industry uses tenths of a foot! It's not 12 inches to the foot as normal, it's 10 surveyor inches to the foot.

Anywho, I'm glad you have evrything worked out. Have fun with 8. :)
 

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And what is really ironic is that neither a 12 hous clock with PM/AM nor a 24 hours clock is very metric.
The real metric (SI, Systeme Internationale) time unit is second and only second.
The funny idea of 24 or 2*12 hours in a day is probably 4000-5000 years old from the old sumerians :)
Bad habits have long lives.

I tried once to make up some "mnemonics" to remember AM and PM and AM was "After Midday" or perhaps it was "After Midnight" = confusion again, then later I learned that AM means "Ante Meridianum" which makes more sense since Meridianum is easy (?) to remeber as midday, but then I never remembered what Ante really ment, before or after = confusion and trouble again.
Therefore I hate 12 hours clocks (but I am still not sure if I want a clock with 86400 second marks on it)
 

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