Windows 10: Issues with time zone formats

This was a problem I had a while ago but ignored because it was minor, but recently learned it's causing other issues that i'll get to later. First i'll just give some context: you can ignore the first paragraph if you want.


So it started with me wanting to change my computer to military time, since I am trying to get used to using both 12hr and 24hr times since they are both popular around the world. Similarly, i also value being able to understand d/m/y formatting of dates since that's used basically everywhere outside of my country USA and it's less confusing honestly. However i noticed that my settings did not allow d/m/y formatting at all, so I toyed with my location settings or something else, i honestly dont remember and changed my language to european english. can't seem to change it back to american english for some reason, it just doesn't appear as an option in the drop down menu. Good news: I can use 24 hr time and d/m/y format now. Bad news: I only have the options for formats that include unnecessary zeros for example, today is 22/09/2020. I would prefer for that to say 22/9/2020. Same issue with the 24hr time. But again, this was pretty ignorable so i forgot about it.


But ever since I started online school, I realized that my calculator uses commas as decimals, and vice versa. I know learning european formats is what I like to do, but getting used to this just seems way more complicated than useful. I've talked to europeans about date and time formats several times, but not once number formatting. The fact that it's confusing is especially bad for using it during school. I know i may need a graphing calculator for my math class, but for other classes it's nice to have something I can pull up in literally 5 seconds.


So, summary of what i'm looking for all at once obviously:

d/m/y format not 0d/0m/yy format, hence the example from earlier

x:xx 24hr time format

american calculator format periods used for decimals and commas used for large numbers

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Time Zones

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty with the problem, it would be helpful if you could reply to these questions to assist you further.

• What is the make and model of your computer?
• Since when are you facing this issue?

Time Zone will not change automatically while you travel. If you want to change the Time Zone for your computer, you will have to change manually.

Only the live tiles like Weather, News, and Sports have the ability to change with the location.

• Go to control panel.
• Click on "Clock, Language, and Region
• Under "Date and Time", click on "Change the Time Zone"
• Under "Time Zone" click on "Change time zone
• Under "Time Zone, click the current time zone, and select your actual time zone
  • Click OK and you are done.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Fluctuating Time Zone Setting

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.

I would suggest you to check if the values for “set time automatically” and “set time zone automatically” under Date and Time settings are “ON”. If not, then suggest you to make the vale to “ON” and check for the status.

If the issue still persists, follow the steps provided below:

• Press Windows key + R, type services.msc and press Enter.
• Locate Windows Time from the list and double click on the service.
• In Genereal tab, set the Startup type to Automatic.
• Click on Apply and OK.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Changing Time Format

Hi Mary,

There's a possibility that the set up time format in your computer Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is military time. To have this checked, you can try to reset the time of your computer through Control Panel. See the steps below on how to do
so:

• Open Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region >
  Change date, time, or number formats. This would open the
  Region window.
• From there, click on Additional settings at the bottom part. It will open the Customize Format.
• Click Reset; then, OK.

The steps should work; however, if not, we suggest that you contact manufacturer and have the BIOS time checked.

Let us know what happens after doing the suggestions .