astondg
New member
This seems like the kind of ridiculous stuff that's limited by region. This query also doesn't work for me in Australia (although I get a Bing search rather than 'cannot connect').
I can't think of a reason that would stop them rolling out the US 'what is the date?' functionality to other English speaking regions (obviously using the OS regionalisation for formatting the date and time), but they still withhold it. And the features they do regionalise often end up less useful to me than using the in-regionalised versions (i.e. setting my phone to US region). It frustrates me that I get a better, more useful, Cortana experience by setting my devices regions to US (i.e. without any of Micosoft's special regionalisations for me) than leaving them as Australia with the only exception being relevant 'local' News articles. But doing that screws up the rest of the phone experience (OS date & time formatting, in-app formats for date, time & units, content from video, music & app stores, etc.).
I can't think of a reason that would stop them rolling out the US 'what is the date?' functionality to other English speaking regions (obviously using the OS regionalisation for formatting the date and time), but they still withhold it. And the features they do regionalise often end up less useful to me than using the in-regionalised versions (i.e. setting my phone to US region). It frustrates me that I get a better, more useful, Cortana experience by setting my devices regions to US (i.e. without any of Micosoft's special regionalisations for me) than leaving them as Australia with the only exception being relevant 'local' News articles. But doing that screws up the rest of the phone experience (OS date & time formatting, in-app formats for date, time & units, content from video, music & app stores, etc.).