Power Apps Date Format Trick: Instantly Change Date Display in Canvas Apps
Mar 15, 2025I'm from the UK, and if there's something we're always changing in our apps and flows, it's date formatting.
I want to take a few minutes to show you a simple trick so that you don't run into formatting issues in your Canvas Apps again with your date fields.
Let me show you.
Step 1 - Add Your Date Picker
I've first gone into my Canvas App and added the Date Picker control.
As you can see in the image below, my date picker is in the US format (no bueno).
Step 2 - Identify Your Language Code
See the table below and pick the language code that you need your date to be formatted in.
I've added a table below of the most popular language codes, and in our case it will be "en-GB".
Step 3 - Change Your Date Picker's "Language" Property
Finally, we're going to enter that code as a string in the "Language" property of our Date Picker, like so:
Now in our Date Picker the date is formatted in the UK Format, which is the right way to do it (joking of course).
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