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Date & time format controls how every date and time is written across TimeTracker, and which day your week starts on. Find it at Settings → Date & time format. These are display settings. They change how values are shown, never what is stored.

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What is on this page

One card, Display format, with three dropdowns and a Save changes button. All three save together in one click.

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Date format

Each option previews itself in the dropdown, so you can see the result before you pick it. Using 9 July 2026 as the example:
If your team spans countries, pick MMM D, YYYY or D MMM YYYY. A written month cannot be misread. 07/09/2026 means July 9th to some people and 7th September to others.

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Time format

This changes how times are shown. It does not change how you type them. Time fields accept either style whatever you pick here – typing 4:30 pm, 16:30, 1630 or 4.30 pm all mean the same thing.

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Week starts on

This decides where a week boundary falls. Only Monday and Sunday are offered, because those are the two days a working week realistically starts on. It matters in more places than it first looks:
  • Which days a weekly timesheet covers.
  • Where a week bucket begins in reports.
  • How “this week” and “last week” are worked out in date ranges.
Changing the week start moves every week boundary in your reports. A weekly report run before and after the change covers different days. Change it once, early, and leave it alone.

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How to change them

1

Open Date & time format

Go to Settings. Date & time format sits under Workspace.
2

Pick your formats

Choose a date pattern, a clock style and a week start. The date dropdown previews each pattern for you.
3

Save

Click Save changes. Everyone in the workspace sees the new formats straight away.

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Two kinds of value, treated differently

This is the part that surprises people, so it is worth being clear. A due date of 9 July is 9 July for everyone, everywhere. A calendar day is a calendar day, and moving it across zones would put it on the wrong day. A time entry that started at 09:00 in the workspace timezone shows as 09:00, or 9:00 AM on a 12-hour clock.

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Where these settings show up

Once saved, the formats apply everywhere:
  • Time entries, timesheets and timecards.
  • Task due dates and project dates.
  • Invoice dates and payment dates.
  • Report columns, headers and date buckets.
  • The Archive and Trash lists.
  • Notification emails.

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Example

Northwind Studio is a UK and US team. Maya sets:
  • Date format D MMM YYYY, so nobody misreads 07/09.
  • Time format 24-hour, which the whole team already uses.
  • Week starts on Monday, matching their Monday to Friday week.
Sarah Lin’s Monday to Friday timesheet now runs Monday 6 Jul 2026 to Friday 10 Jul 2026, and her 3 hours on Homepage wireframes shows as starting 09:00.

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Permissions

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Common questions

No. Date and time format are workspace-wide, so everyone reads the same numbers the same way. That matters in a system of record for time and money.
No. These settings only change how values are displayed. Nothing stored is rewritten, and no hours change.
Those are the two days a working week realistically starts on. Offering the other five would add choices nobody needs.
On General. Date and time format decide how a value is written; the timezone decides which moment it points at.
Dates in an export follow the workspace format. See Export your data.

Dates, times and timezones

How TimeTracker decides which day an hour belongs to.

General settings

Workspace name, base currency and timezone.

Date ranges and periods

How week buckets are built in reports.

Schedule timezones

Why a person’s zone can differ from the workspace’s.

Workspace settings

Every settings page and who can open it.

Glossary

Every term used across TimeTracker.