Outlook meeting invitations should show day of week in date.

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The header of a meeting invitation shows the date and time like this:

11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.

Suppose I have a regular commitment every Tuesday at 12:30. The first thing
I want to know is if the new invitation is a Tuesday. I have to go into the
calendar or do mental arithmetic to work out that 11th Sept is in fact a
Monday. Why not save me the trouble by displaying the date like this

Mon. 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.

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I am not sure I understand what you are asking for. Do you have your long
date format set to include the dddd token for the day,

When I send myself meeting invitations, the invite is labelled:

Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:00 PM-7:30 PM.


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After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:

| The header of a meeting invitation shows the date and time like this:
|
| 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|
| Suppose I have a regular commitment every Tuesday at 12:30. The
| first thing I want to know is if the new invitation is a Tuesday. I
| have to go into the calendar or do mental arithmetic to work out that
| 11th Sept is in fact a Monday. Why not save me the trouble by
| displaying the date like this
|
| Mon. 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
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Milly, thanks for that response.

Ah. Does the "long date format" mean the one that's set up Windows-wide in
the Control Panel? If so, I'm probably knackered, as the Control Panel
defaults are likely reset by my company's overnight maintenance run. And
suppose I want it different for different apps?

Is there no way to configure the date format just for Outlook?

Regards,

Ron
 
No, Outlook uses Windows settings.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:

| Milly, thanks for that response.
|
| Ah. Does the "long date format" mean the one that's set up
| Windows-wide in the Control Panel? If so, I'm probably knackered, as
| the Control Panel defaults are likely reset by my company's overnight
| maintenance run. And suppose I want it different for different apps?
|
| Is there no way to configure the date format just for Outlook?
|
| Regards,
|
| Ron
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I am not sure I understand what you are asking for. Do you have
|| your long date format set to include the dddd token for the day,
||
|| When I send myself meeting invitations, the invite is labelled:
||
|| Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:00 PM-7:30 PM.
||
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:
||
||| The header of a meeting invitation shows the date and time like
||| this:
|||
||| 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|||
||| Suppose I have a regular commitment every Tuesday at 12:30. The
||| first thing I want to know is if the new invitation is a Tuesday. I
||| have to go into the calendar or do mental arithmetic to work out
||| that 11th Sept is in fact a Monday. Why not save me the trouble by
||| displaying the date like this
|||
||| Mon. 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|||
||| ----------------
||| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
||| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
||| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
||| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
||| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|||
|||
||
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I changed the long date format in Control Panel / Regional Options and that
has indeed got me the date format that I want in meeting invitations. And the
change has survived the overnight system maintenance run, hooray!

Thanks for your help!
 
You're welcome - glad the IT folks are not that controlling.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:

| I changed the long date format in Control Panel / Regional Options
| and that has indeed got me the date format that I want in meeting
| invitations. And the change has survived the overnight system
| maintenance run, hooray!
|
| Thanks for your help!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| No, Outlook uses Windows settings.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:
||
||| Milly, thanks for that response.
|||
||| Ah. Does the "long date format" mean the one that's set up
||| Windows-wide in the Control Panel? If so, I'm probably knackered,
||| as the Control Panel defaults are likely reset by my company's
||| overnight maintenance run. And suppose I want it different for
||| different apps?
|||
||| Is there no way to configure the date format just for Outlook?
|||
||| Regards,
|||
||| Ron
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| I am not sure I understand what you are asking for. Do you have
|||| your long date format set to include the dddd token for the day,
||||
|||| When I send myself meeting invitations, the invite is labelled:
||||
|||| Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:00 PM-7:30 PM.
||||
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, rrgmitchell asked:
||||
||||| The header of a meeting invitation shows the date and time like
||||| this:
|||||
||||| 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|||||
||||| Suppose I have a regular commitment every Tuesday at 12:30. The
||||| first thing I want to know is if the new invitation is a Tuesday.
||||| I have to go into the calendar or do mental arithmetic to work out
||||| that 11th Sept is in fact a Monday. Why not save me the trouble
||||| by displaying the date like this
|||||
||||| Mon. 11 September 2006 12:15-13:45.
|||||
||||| ----------------
||||| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
||||| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
||||| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
||||| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the
||||| Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the
||||| message pane.
|||||
|||||
||||
||
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