Digital Signature date format dd-mm to dd-mmm within Office Apps

AMM 0 Reputation points
2023-02-07T17:33:16.0233333+00:00

Hi Team,

We use Microsoft Digital Signature and Certificates to digitally sign our documents. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/digital-signatures-and-certificates-8186cd15-e7ac-4a16-8597-22bd163e8e96

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We have staff in the US and the UK hence we get date format ambiguities. A document signed as 3/10/2023 will be read as 10th March by a US staff and 3rd of October by UK.

We were thinking to change the date format to dd-mmm-yy (28 Oct 2009) for date stamps within document, so the dates can be read by both regions without any confusion but I couldn't find a way to do it. When I change the system date format to dd-mmm-yy it doesn't reflect on the document and the document still shows dd-mm-yy.

This is mainly required for MS Word and MS Excel.

Any ideas, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

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  1. Emily Hua-MSFT 27,581 Reputation points
    2023-02-08T08:25:19.4166667+00:00

    Hi @AMM

    Based on my tests, to confirm that the information originated from the signer and has not been altered, please double click the signature to check details.

    Then the date format in Signature Details will follow the order of year, month, and day of Windows system date format.

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    But so far, I do not find the method to set data format as dd-mmm-yy for signature.

    Thanks for your understanding.

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