In Progress

This is actually work in progress for the next major release, Studio 2021, coming soon. It will be delivered slightly differently than articulated in this idea (you don't need to change OS level, you will be able to customize this directly in Studio), but it will deliver this idea. Stay tuned!

Studio does not show customized Windows date/time formats in Options > Language Pairs > Dates and times

In my language, Danish, the correct way to write a numerical ("short") date is with periods, not hyphens. Example: 3 June 2020 is written 03.06.20. The default format in Windows (even in the Danish-language version) is with hyphens: 3-06-20, but this is not officially correct. The date format can be customized in Windows' settings, which I have done by adding a new short date format using periods. Studio is then supposed to offer this new customized format in Options > Language Pairs > Dates and times, but it does not - however, Studio does seem to adhere to the new format, it just doesn't show it, which is confusing and should be fixed.

Please see attached screenshots:

Windows settings dialog showing the 'Short date' format customized to 'dd.MM.yyyy' highlighted in red.

"Windows short date format setting.jpg" shows the selected (customized) short date format using periods in Windows' settings.

Trados Studio options dialog showing 'Dates and Times' settings without the customized 'dd.MM.yyyy' short date format option.

"Studio options for short date format.jpg" shows that the format option for short date using periods is not offered in Studio's date and time settings.

Dennis Boffy