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Hello,

The latest version (2.0.640) now enables the DatePicker control to be formatted, however I observed strange behaviour when formatting as "d mmm yyyy".

In the web studio the date is displayed as 1 June 2017

In the windows studio it is displayed as 1 june 2017

The web player displays as 1 june 2017

Windows mobile displays 1 june 2017

Although being able to format the DatePicker is a great improvement, I do feel that having the month displayed as lower case does 'degrade' the presentation of dates to a customer and introduces a doubt that PowerApps is still not ready for commercial grade applications. Surely the fix to this must be relatively easy?

thanks

Richard

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This is likely due to a difference in the language that is used in the browser vs. the native versions of the app. Depending on whether the specific locale is supported (e.g., en-US, en-GB) or a fallback language is used (if the locale is en-AU, it will default to the generic "en" locale for the names of date parts). Different browsers use different rules for which language they request (i.e., IE/Edge use the system language, Chrome uses its own language in the settings, and so on), so that may explain the difference.

In addition to the new 'Format' property, the DatePicker also got a new 'Language' property, which controls exactly what language will be used when converting the date to text. When the property is not set (the default value), the control will choose the system language. If you set that property explicitly (e.g., to "en-GB"), you should see the same values in all platforms.

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Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the prompt response.

I did as you suggested and it now displays correctly... very happy !

regards

Richard

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