# Perspective Equipment Schedule DateTime Format

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574 "2024-08-13T05:59:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Rohan\_raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rohan\_raj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohan_raj)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/1 "2024-08-13T05:59:24Z")

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hi Ignition community,  
i want to change the time format of equipment schedule from 12 hour to 24 hour format. Please guide me. Any help would be appreciated.  
Thank you.

 ![EquipmentSchedulePic](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/8/18c50a8832d840310a51244ffe2b8ce4d83cc93f.png)

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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/2 "2024-08-13T07:17:18Z")

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Hello, I tried this, start over and add yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss to the startDate and endDate

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/0/c064503897bbcd77faadd8e1f5812f8bb4c7b583.png)

```python
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

```

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**Author:** ![Rohan\_raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rohan\_raj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohan_raj)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/3 "2024-08-13T07:34:17Z")

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Great! but how did you changed it in this format (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss)

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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/4 "2024-08-13T07:34:45Z")

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just paste it there

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**Author:** ![Rohan\_raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rohan\_raj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohan_raj)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/5 "2024-08-13T07:45:18Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/9/a9d5de8c069543e1fc9f86efc53eb89faf113e77.png)  
what's next?

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/7 "2024-08-13T08:17:56Z")

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Alejandro, `startDate` and `endDate` are supposed to be DateTime objects, not format strings.

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**Author:** ![jonathan.axelsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jonathan.axelsson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jonathan.axelsson)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/8 "2025-12-18T13:15:36Z")

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The only way i found that works is to change the locale setting in the sessions props. Im in sweden so i put sv-SE instead of us-EN that is default i think.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/3/23651c9b528819c2aa777380e88aac6fea177565.png)

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**Author:** ![James\_Caudle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@James\_Caudle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/James_Caudle)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-equipment-schedule-datetime-format/94574/9 "2026-05-20T13:32:42Z")

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Has there been any progress on this request? Many of us use the session props locale for our language selections.