Set SharePoint regional settings

Summary

Script will set custom regional settings in your sharepoint site

Implementation

• Open Windows PowerShell ISE
• Edit Script and add details of your prefered regional settings
• Press run

• PnP PowerShell

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###### Declare and Initialize Variables ######  

#Destination site collection url
$url="https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<yoursitecollection>"

# data will be saved in same directory script was started from
$saveDir = (Resolve-path ".\")  
$currentTime= $(get-date).ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss")  
$logFilePath=".\log-"+$currentTime+".log"  

## Start the Transcript  
Start-Transcript -Path $logFilePath 

## Connect to SharePoint Online site  
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $Url -Interactive


### Set SharePoint site time zone with Pnp Powershell 
$localeId = 2057 # UK
$timeZoneId = 2 # London

$web = Get-PnPWeb -Includes RegionalSettings,RegionalSettings.TimeZones
$timeZone = $web.RegionalSettings.TimeZones | Where-Object {$_.Id -eq $timeZoneId}
$web.RegionalSettings.LocaleId = $localeId
$web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone = $timeZone
$web.Update()
Invoke-PnPQuery


### Set Regional Settings using PnP PowerShell
$web = Get-PnPWeb -Includes RegionalSettings

## Define your regional settings in an object
$myRegionalSettings = @{
    LocaleId              = 1063
    WorkDayStartHour      = 9
    WorkDayEndHour        = 6
    FirstDayOfWeek        = 0
    Time24                = $False
    CalendarType          = 1
    AlternateCalendarType = 0
    WorkDays              = 124
}

$properties = $myRegionalSettings.GetEnumerator()

foreach($property in $myRegionalSettings.GetEnumerator()){
    $web.RegionalSettings.$($property.Name)= $property.Value 
}
$web.Update()
Invoke-PnPQuery


## Disconnect the context  
Disconnect-PnPOnline  
 
## Stop Transcript  
Stop-Transcript  
 

Note

Site regional settings can be changed in multiple ways via code. One of the examples of changing reginal setting via site design can be found in this sample Create and add site design to SharePoint site with site columns, content type

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Source Credit

Sample first appeared on The many ways to set UK Locale in SharePoint

Contributors

Author(s)
Inspired by Paul Bullock
Valeras Narbutas

Disclaimer

THESE SAMPLES ARE PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.