{"id":7950,"date":"2018-02-16T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/blog\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2024-02-06T19:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:19:54","slug":"convert-uk-dates-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/convert-uk-dates-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change &#038; Convert UK Dates to US in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever come across a scenario where your dates in Excel are in the wrong format?<\/p>\n<p>Say you type in <strong>01\/05\/2018<\/strong>\u00a0which actually means\u00a0<strong>January 5, 2018 <\/strong>in the US but it shows as<strong> May 1, 2018!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>It drives me nuts because the entire <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/free-excel-templates-and-spreadsheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spreadsheet\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">spreadsheet<\/a> of dates is interpreted incorrectly by Excel!<\/p>\n<p>That happens because your<strong> computer&#8217;s region settings<\/strong> are in UK format and need to be changed to a US format.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there is an easy way to change your <strong><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/download-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Windows\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Windows<\/a> region &amp; date settings\u00a0<\/strong>so that the dates will be interpreted correctly by\u00a0<strong>Excel!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here I show you how you can do this.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KeydDCpyOo?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0For Windows 10, go to your Search Bar and type\u00a0<strong>Date &amp; Time Settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-01.jpg\" alt=\"European Date Format\" width=\"387\" height=\"621\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Scroll to the very bottom, and select\u00a0<strong>Change date and time formats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-02.jpg\" alt=\"European Date Format\" width=\"555\" height=\"655\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 3:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0You can see the current <strong>Short date\u00a0<\/strong>setting is Day-Month-Year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-03-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-03-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"558\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Change it to <strong>M\/dd\/yy<\/strong>\u00a0which is the\u00a0<strong>US Date Format.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-04-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-04-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"563\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 4:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Now go to Excel and type in\u00a0<strong>01\/05\/2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-05.jpg\" alt=\"European Date Format\" width=\"369\" height=\"304\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is now correctly interpreted as\u00a0<strong>January 5, 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-06-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Support-European-Date-Format-in-Excel-06-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"389\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>How to Change &amp; Convert UK Dates to US in Excel<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/100-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/530x300-Pivot-300x170.jpg 300w\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever come across a scenario where your dates in Excel are in the wrong format? Say you type in 01\/05\/2018\u00a0which actually means\u00a0January 5, 2018 in the US but it shows as May 1, 2018!\u00a0\u00a0It drives me nuts because the entire spreadsheet of dates is interpreted incorrectly by Excel! That happens because your computer&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[347,348,349],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}