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Localised dates

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I'm building a Flow where I want to show the dates of Sharepoint objects. I would like to have the format "Mån 23 maj, 2018", (In English: Monday May 23, 2018) localised in Swedish. I can't get the Swedish names of the days and months, however. 

 

I have made an easy sample flow to test this, with this code:

 

formatDateTime(items('Tillämpa_på_vardera')?['Created'], 'dddd dd MMMM')

but it comes out as

 

Wednesday 30 May

 

I have tried to set the regional settings in the settings panel to Sweden:

 

 

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but it doesn't help. 

 

In the support document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings there is a parameter where you can set the localisation settings, but I can't get that to work in MS Flow.

 

formatDateTime(items('Tillämpa_på_vardera')?['Created'], 'dddd dd MMMM', 'sv-SE')

gives me an error message.

 

I have also tried 

 

formatDateTime(items('Tillämpa_på_vardera')?['Created'], '[$-sv-SE]dddd dd MMMM')

which is the Powerapps syntax but that doesn't work either. 

 

I'm out of ideas now. I think I should be able to get the localised weekday and month names but how?

 

 

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    v-yuazh-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @fjellander,

     

    I have made a test on my side and I afraid that it is not supported in microsoft flow to get a date formate no in english.

     

    And I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs to get a data format in Swedish in Microsoft Flow currently.

     

    You could submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum if you would like this feature to be added in Microsoft Flow,

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

     

    Best regards,

    Alice

  • fjellander Profile Picture
    6 on at

    OK! Thanks anyway! I have now posted an idea: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/Localized-date-time/idi-p/125259#M7980

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