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I'm having some problems in Windows 8 Metro apps (XAML & C#) regarding the user's regional settings. It seems that the apps won't respect user's regional settings , so even if your Windows 8 is set to display dates and times in Finnish format, the apps will still display them using US-formatting. But this is such a big problem that there must be something I'm missing? To test this I started by creating a WPF-application . The application just prints out the CurrentCulture and the formatted DateTime.Now: private void Culture_Loaded_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { this.Culture.Text = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DisplayName; } private void Date_Loaded_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { this.Date.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString(); } Here's my default regional settings: When run, the app displayed the date in Finnish format: Then I changed the regional settings to US: And when the app was run again, the culture and formatting changed: This is as I expected everything to work and this is also how I expected WinRT apps to work. So as a next step, I created a WinRT (XAML & C#) app with the same code and reverted the regional settings back to Finnish. The problem: Even when I've defined through regional settings that the formatting should be "Finnish", the WinRT app displays the datetime with US-formatting. I then modified the app's project file and made fi-FI the default language : <im

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