How to set your date format and timezone

Scanfully shows dates in the format you choose, and converts every time to your timezone. This helps when you work with clients in other regions, or when your team is spread over several timezones.

Set them

1. Click your name at the bottom of the menu and choose Account. Settings opens.
2. Under Preferences, choose a Date format: DD.MM.YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYYY, or Custom to type your own pattern (for example YYYY/MM/DD).
3. Under Timezone, search for your timezone and select it.
4. Check Preview: it shows the current date, and date and time, as Scanfully will show them.
5. Click Save changes.

See Account settings for everything else on the page.

Where they apply

• The dashboard: dates and times across the dashboard.
• Email notifications: dates and times use your format and timezone, with the timezone name after them, for example 16.03.2026 14:30:45 (Europe/Amsterdam).
• Daily digest and quiet hours: their times follow your timezone.

FAQ

Why does Scanfully ask for a timezone?

Scanfully stores every time in UTC. Your timezone lets it show those times as your own clock reads them. A new account starts on UTC; until you change it, the daily digest and quiet hours settings suggest the timezone of your browser.

Which tokens can I use in a custom format?

Use YYYY for the year, MM for the month and DD for the day, and HH, mm and ss for hours, minutes and seconds. Scanfully refuses a pattern without any of these tokens. These work too, in the dashboard and in emails alike:

Token	Shows	Example
YY	Two-digit year	26
M, D	Month and day without a leading zero	3, 7
MMM, MMMM	Short and full month name	Oct, October
ddd, dddd	Short and full weekday name	Mon, Monday
H, h, hh	Hour without a leading zero, 12-hour clock	9, 3, 03
A, a	AM or PM	PM, pm

Put text you want to show as is between square brackets, for example [week of] D MMM for “week of 12 Oct”.