Date global display in YYYY/MM/DD format

Question

Is this possible in Windows version?  After all, it is the ANSI, ISO, Canadian, and NIST standards (since 1969) and the only logical way to represent dates, from most significant to least significant, just like thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones for currency.  If not currently possible, could it be on the list of future enhancements?

Gordon Everest · Answer

That works, thanks for your help.

Chris_QPW · Answer

The settings for the short date in this place are very limited (and based on what region you have set like US or Canada), but there is the old fall back "Control Panel" like settings.

You can either go through Control Panel → Region

Or select the "Administrative language settings" on the Time & Language → Language & Region window.

Select Formats tab:

Additional settings… → Date tab

Here you can yyyy/M/dd for the Short date.

Gordon Everest · Answer

wow, that really works!  and it will be set globally I assume.  Thanks.

I see the format options of 17/04/05 or 2017-04-05

Indeed, with the 2 digit year and slash delimiter, the + or - on incrementing or decrementing the date works, but as you noted with the - delimiter, it does not work.

I would like to have a 4 digit year and the slash delimiter but can't seem to do that.  It is not one of the choices given to me.