Windows 10: Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats in Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats in Windows

How to Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats in Windows


The date and time formats for their account in Windows.

Users can then customize their locale by changing their user overrides (date and time formats).

If you like, you can prevent users from being able to change their date and time formats for their locale. Users will still be able to change their user locale.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable changing date and time formats for specific or all users in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable changing date and time formats.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for Specific Users in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Three: Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Changing of date and time formats enabled and disabled
















OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users in Local Group Policy Editor

*note This option will override Option Two.

In Windows 7, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 8, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 10, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Three below.
1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor, click/tap on to expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, and Locale Services. (see screenshot below)



3. In the right pane of Locale Services, double click/tap on the Disallow user override of locale settings policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users
A) Select (dot) Not Configured or Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users
A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for Specific Users in Local Group Policy Editor

*note In Windows 7, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 8, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 10, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Three below.
1. Open the all users except administrators Local Group Policy Editor for how you want this policy applied.

2. In the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor, click/tap on to expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, and Locale Services. (see screenshot below)



3. In the right pane of Locale Services, double click/tap on the Disallow user override of locale settings policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Changing Date and Time Formats
A) Select (dot) either Not Configured or Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Changing Date and Time Formats
A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION THREE [/i] Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users using a REG file

*note This option will override Option Two.

The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry keys below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Control Panel\International

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Control Panel\International

PreventUserOverrides DWORD

(delete) = Enable
1 = Disable

1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_changing_date_and_time_formats.reg

Download

3. To Disable Changing Date and Time Formats for All Users
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_changing_date_and_time_formats.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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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 .

 

In the 'Date & Time' settings, the tab 'change date & time' is disabled.

Thanks, Martmcd.

I enabled 'Set time automatically'.

That disabled 'Change date and Time'

I did what you suggested and I could now re-set the correct date.

Thanks a lot.

 

how to make date format change permanent

Hi, don't know why it would reset, I'm afraid, but here's an idea:

a. set the format:
Change Date and Time Formats in Windows 10
(Settings or C. Panel)

b. disable change
Enable or Disable Changing Date and Time Formats in Windows
(See reg file option if using Home)

 

CHANGE DATE @ TIME IN WINDOWS 10

Hi Edward,

You can change the time format to 24 hours in Date and Time settings. To do so, please follow these steps:

• In Cortana's search box, please type "Date and Time".
• Click on Change date and time format.
• To change the time to 24hr format, in the long and short time options, please click
  HH:MM from the drop down menu.
• For the date format, please choose dd/mmm/yy format.

Please let us know if you need further help.

 

change of time format in windows 10

Hello,

I hope I can help you today

Open the Control Panel and, in Clock, language and region, click Change date, time or number formats.

In the Formats tab, in Date and time formats, follow these steps:

To change to the 24-hour format, in the Shortcut drop-down list, select hh: mm and, in the Long-time drop-down list, select HH: mm: ss.

To change to the 12-hour format, in the Shortcut drop-down list, select h: mm: tt and, in the Long time drop-down list, select h: mm: ss: tt.

Click Apply, and then OK.

regards