Hi,
To the best of my knowledge, I am afraid it's not feasible to change this setting via Group Policy or registry.
For current situation, you can consider train the users to manually change the setting via Outlook Options. Besides, it's also supported to manually modify the timescale in the time field as follows:

Regards,
Yuki Sun
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