Domain users getting US date format, rather than UK, on one PC

[cprelude]

Dear all,

 

Domain users at my school, logging in to one PC in particular, are getting US Date format, mm/dd/yyyy, by default. When I log in as local Admin I get UK date format, which is what we actually want for all users. The users are restricted by GP so can't change date/time settings when logged in themselves.

 

OS is Windows 8.1 64-Bit.

 

Does anyone have any tips on how we could remedy this? It only happens to these users on the one machine in the domain.

 

Best wishes,

cprelude

[Joanne]

can you log on as a local user? What is the format then?

[Koldov]

Sorry, Windows 7 here (but I'm presuming this part didn't change much in Windows 8).

 

What does it say in these options?

 

 

Edit:

 

Also are these options set in an image (assuming the ISO wasn't an Eng-Intl)?

 

Is there any group policy controlling them?

 

Kol.

Edited July 6, 2017 by Koldov

[ollyyllo]

I remember having a similar problem, this fix sounds stupid, and I dont know why it worked, but it did.

 

Login as admin, change the region (under the Formats tab in the picture @Koldov posted) to English (Australia)

Restart the PC

Change the region to English (United Kingdom)

Restart the PC

 

Worth a try.

Edited July 6, 2017 by ollyyllo

[cprelude]

can you log on as a local user? What is the format then?

Hi Joanne, When I log in as local admin I get UK format.

[cprelude]

Hi there Olly,

I will give it a go.

[cprelude]

Sorry, Windows 7 here (but I'm presuming this part didn't change much in Windows 8).

 

What does it say in these options?

 

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Edit:

 

Also are these options set in an image (assuming the ISO wasn't an Eng-Intl)?

 

Is there any group policy controlling them?

 

Kol.

Hi Koldov, when I log in as Administrator locally I get English (United Kingdom) as System Locale. However, when the effected user login I can't see what it says as him, as his ability to control panel items is restricted by Group Policy.

[Koldov]

Hi Koldov, when I log in as Administrator locally I get English (United Kingdom) as System Locale. However, when the effected user login I can't see what it says as him, as his ability to control panel items is restricted by Group Policy.

 

That's fine I think, as Admin you are changing these settings for everybody using the computer.

 

 

Also, I am usually a bit OCD and delete all the other keyboards etc. Make sure ALL possible items on these pages are UK!

 

 

Kol.

Edited July 6, 2017 by Koldov

[cprelude]

Dear All,

Many thanks for all your help. In the end, I found something that "worked for me". Based on a tip I'd read elsewhere, signed in as Local Admin. Ran Regedit. Went to HK_USERS. There is nothing to match USERS to profiles here, so you have to go in to each one - there's probably a much quicker way of finding the one anomalous user with the US date format. But anyway, I just when through each user going to: Control Panel/International/sShortDate string. I eventually found the user with the sShortDate string value in the US format, changed it to dd/MM/yyyy format, and saved. This did the job when the effected user logged back in. I have no idea how the anomaly crept in to his profile on this computer as he would not have been able to make the change himself, and nor would anyone else logged in as him. But anyway, this is now resolved for him on this computer. I now just have to check his two other regularly used computers! Needless to say, I accept there's probably numerous quicker/better ways to fix this, but I found something that worked anyway.

[Koldov]

Domain users ...

 

Sorry, from your original post I thought it was all users on a particular machine - not just one user and all the others were ok!