Set Default Site Time Zone in Office 365

Imagine my pleasure to see this tweet first thing this morning from Sohail Merchant (@sohailmerchant)! I’m not sure when this actually showed up, but it’s an ask from me which goes back almost four years on UserVoice. Interestingly enough, they are still THINKING ABOUT IT. I don’t see anything obvious on the Office 365 Roadmap,…

Detecting the Current SharePoint User’s Regional Settings

Brian McCullough (@bpmccullough) pinged me on Twitter today with a question: . @sympmarc is this still only option fir getting users regional settings client side? Have you come across any other alternatives? — Brian McCullough (@bpmccullough) October 3, 2017 Brian was asking about an old blog post of mine where I basically screen scraped the…

Beware the Office 365 Group -Based Site Regional Settings!!!

This is a quick post, yet it’s still an important one. We’re using more and more Office 365 Group -based SharePoint sites these days. Even when you know you aren’t going to use some of the goodies you end up with, this type of site is making more and more sense. <addendum data-datetime=”Sun May 14…

Detecting the Current User’s Regional Settings with jQuery

I noticed a nice little trick going by in my Twitter feeds today. I’ve always wanted to know how to do this. Displaying the right formats for dates and times as well as the right offset from UTC is a real challenge from the client side. There’s a fantastic library called Moment.js that I use…