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Change how dates and times look

Choose whether times show on a 12-hour or 24-hour clock, and pick the order of day, month, and year in dates. These are personal settings: they change how Syndik8 displays times and dates for you, on every device you sign in to, and never change what anyone else sees.

Before you start

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  • These settings sit on your account, not on a syndicate. You set them once and they apply across all the syndicates you belong to.
  • The default is a 24-hour clock and day-month-year dates. Both can be changed at any time.
  • Changing these settings only affects how existing times and dates are shown. It does not alter any booking, usage log, or report.

Steps

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  1. Open the Profile tab.
  2. Scroll to the Preferences section, below your display name and alongside the theme and timezone controls.
  3. Under Clock format, tap the option you want:
    • 24-hour, times read as 14:30.
    • 12-hour, times read as 2:30 PM with an AM/PM marker. The line beneath the two options shows how a time reads under the one you have chosen, and a Clock format updated confirmation appears. The change takes effect immediately.
  4. Under Date format, tap the order you want:
    • 23 Feb 2026, day, month, year (UK and European default).
    • Feb 23, 2026, month, day, year (US).
    • 2026-02-23, year, month, day (ISO 8601). A Date format updated confirmation appears and dates across the app re-render in the chosen order.

Dates on the app’s own screens use the format you chose, with the year, and times use your clock: 10 Mar 2026 18:00. A booking within one day reads 10 Mar 2026, 18:00 – 20:00; one that runs across days gives both ends, 10 Mar 2026 18:00 – 14 Mar 2026 07:00. Where a range has no room for one line, it breaks between whole dates and times rather than in the middle of one. Where a heading already names the day, as in the calendar, a booking shows its times alone.

A few places keep their own form:

  • Dates elsewhere leave out the day of the week. The calendar names it, and so does the weekly digest’s send day (Monday).
  • The watch app and the home-screen widget use a short form such as Tue 10 Mar, to fit their small space.
  • Most notification and email text is worded by the server, and does not yet follow these settings.
  • Tech logs and financial statements start with your normal date preference. Their export screens let you choose another date format for that export only, including ISO. Tech-log times keep a 24-hour clock.
The Preferences section of the Profile screen showing the Clock format segments for 24-hour and 12-hour with the worked example beneath them, above the Date format segments for day-month-year, month-day-year and year-month-dayThe Preferences section of the Profile screen showing the Clock format segments for 24-hour and 12-hour with the worked example beneath them, above the Date format segments for day-month-year, month-day-year and year-month-day

See also

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