Did you know there’s an international standard for date and time data? It’s called the International Standard ISO 8601 and it states that Monday is the first day of the week. While the majority of countries adopted this standard, some consider that Sunday is the first day of the week. For example, in the United States and Canada, the first day of the week is Sunday. On the other hand, in the UK and Australia, the week starts on Monday.
By default, Microsoft Teams considers Saturday as the last day of the week, while Sunday being the first. However, that date setup doesn’t really help if you live in a country where the week starts on Monday. That’s why many non-US Teams users are wondering if there’s a way to change the first day of the week.
The bad news is that Microsoft Teams doesn’t currently feature a built-in option to change the order of days on the calendar. However, there are two workarounds that you can use to get the job done.
How to Change the First Day of the Week in Microsoft Teams
Change the App Language Settings
One quick workaround is to change the app language of the Teams client and set it to English UK. In this manner, your week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. If you switch back to English US, you’ll have Sunday to Saturday again. Or you can change the language settings to any language you speak that has Monday as the first day of the week.
- Launch Teams and click on your profile picture.
- Then select General and scroll down to Language.
- Use the drop-down menu and select the app language you want.
Change Outlook Settings
Other users managed to change the first day of the week in Teams by editing the calendar settings in Outlook.
- Go to outlook.office.com or outlook.live.com and log into your Outlook account.
- Then go to Settings and select View all Outlook settings (bottom of the screen).
- Select Calendar, then View and locate these two options:
- Show the first day of the week as
- Show work week as
- Edit the settings to your liking and apply the changes.
- After that, restart Teams and Outlook and check the results.
Conclusion
In Microsoft Teams, the first day of the week is based on your app language settings.
It’s really annoying that Teams doesn’t have a separate date and time option to change the first day of the week. The closest option to that is hidden under the language settings. Having calendar settings hardcoded into language settings is not the best approach product design-wise.
What do you think about the current Microsoft Teams date and time settings? Is there anything you’d change about them? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Sadly, the change of setting didn’t work.
The peculiar thing is that the issue came around after the latest update, yesterday. Until this my week has started on Mondays. No more.
No – this did not work. I have followed both suggestions and neither worked.
It would also help if you could drag and drop an appointment to another date and time.
You need to change account settings to United Kindgom (English) by going to “manage account” (from the drop down on your profile image). Alternatively, you can visit https://myaccount.microsoft.com/ – this is NOT the same as changing settings in your outlook account
No did not help – tried both and Teams calendar is still starting the week with Sunday.
This completely did NOT help. Why does everyone think that if he knows a button he wants to educate the world.
Outlook settings is working for Outlook Calendar only but for Teams Calendar still the same and no changes…
Me issue is my outlook is set to Monday. The language is English(United States). My teams calendar Starts on Thursday and none of the above fixes it. Also when I check for update it says I am on the latest version
My settings are set as described and Teams still shows Monday as the first day of the week
Altho “Work Week” first day is set to Monday, Teams Calendar is still starting on Sunday. :(