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DavidChanIWC
New Contributor

Is there a way to force AGOL to display dates in data tables in any format besides the American default? My organisation is Australian. Our organisation settings are set up correctly:

Region: Australia,

Language: English - English, 

Number and date format: Australia - Australia‎.

Member settings are inherited from the organisation so it's not an issue of personal setting overriding to American datetime.

However, all of our tables where there is a default date column still displays using mm/dd/yyyy format. This is fine in some cases where it is clearly evident i.e. 1/31/2026 but the majority of cases this is incredibly misleading for pretty much everyone. 

Popups I can configure to display in the default Australian format, but this shouldn't need to be the case. The data should default to respect our settings.

 

 
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VenkataKondepati
Regular Contributor

No, there’s currently no way to force ArcGIS Online data tables to respect regional date formats. AGOL tables render date fields in a fixed US-centric mm/dd/yyyy format, regardless of org or user locale settings. Org settings do apply to pop-ups and labels, but tables are hard-coded on the client side. It’s a known limitation, not a misconfiguration on your end. Until Esri changes this, the only safe workarounds are popup formatting, calculated text fields, or views with formatted date strings.

Regards,
Venkat
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EmilyGeo
Esri Regular Contributor

Hi @DavidChanIWC

I am able to display the date in the table using the format you describe. Firstly, make sure the settings (in My Settings) are set to Australia - Australia‎.. Then in Map Viewer, you can choose the format for the date field in the Fields pane. That format persists across pop-ups and tables:

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gis_KIWI4
MVP Regular Contributor

@DavidChanIWC  - There are organization settings and there are user specific settings. 
Try changing them in the user profile settings. 

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It took us a while to realize this. 
Hope this helps. 

 

RTPL_AU
Honored Contributor

@DavidChanIWC 

Check your computer's locale settings. 
Sometimes the US manages to creep into unwanted spots after a Windows update. 
I once had these settings changed unknowingly and it confused me a lot as nothing in Pro / AGOL was set incorrectly. 

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