Regional Date Formats

[Anonymous]

Revit should have the option to modify the date format throughout the program so that people outside of the US can use the date format appropriate in their country.

For example, within my title box, I am forced to have the date as mm/dd/yy. Contractors in the UK will generally always work with dd/mm/yy, I believe this would also be the case in most of Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, South and Central America, Russia and countries along the north coast of the African continent.

[Jasielpm]

Agosto de 2022 e autodesk ainda não resolveu o problema.

faço emissão de centenas de folhas é horrível 

[bweinreder]

This is literally something that belongs on the Small Annoying Things list,
that can be changed in one line of code and hotfixed tomorrow.

Alternatively, I can probably write a macro that sets the regional date
format automatically when saving. It would store a list of all sheets
generated after opening, set the proper date when saving, and reset the
list, watching for new sheets from that point on etc.

[blien96NT8]

How is this not a standard unit for scheduling?  YYYY.MMDD is my go to... 

[bweinreder]

Where I come from, and most (if not all) of Europe, we use DD-MM-YY.
Currently it defaults to MM/DD/YY. The point is that with changing a single
line of code it could adjust to regional settings. This should be treated
by the Small Annoying Things team and would probably take less than ten
minutes, and since for sheets at least it's a plain text field it shouldn't
affect anything. Instead the best other solution is an embedded macro.

[JensDeSmedt]

Such things should be defined at the project level. I would expect that all Autodesk products would automatically request the project information on B360 or ACC when creating or saving a file for this. But in this regard there are still major shortcomings in the platforms as well.

look: https://portal.productboard.com/aec-bid/7-architecture-revit-public-roadmap/c/234-unified-project-in...

@lim.wendy can you boost this idea?

Thank you

[bweinreder]

That's not a bad idea, I like it. For this to be robust Autodesk would need
to add a DateTime parameter so that title blocks and the information stored
would survive transition between projects with different settings. And
honestly that sounds like a solved problem since DotNet supports this
natively (which Revit uses as a framework).

[j_feeke]

So, we are 2024 now, with Revit in version 2025. And still Autodesk thinks it is "normal" to use American date format for the whole wide world. The "NEW REVIT HOME"... still using montd/day/year, and AM/PM notation.
Why not use the regional setting WINDOWS (MS is also an American company)? Why is that so difficult?

Please, get your eyepatches off, look a bit further then then the US border!