Date display

Posted by Oops on February 23, 2007, 10:29 pm

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Somehow the date display in my register got changed inadvertently
from MM/DD/YYYY to the european version of DD/MM/YYYY.
I could not find any reference in the Help file to change it back to
MM/DD/YYYY .

Does anyone know how to do that?
TIA
Oops

Posted by sharx35 on February 24, 2007, 7:54 am

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> Somehow the date display in my register got changed inadvertently

> from MM/DD/YYYY to the european version of DD/MM/YYYY.

> I could not find any reference in the Help file to change it back to

> MM/DD/YYYY .

> Does anyone know how to do that?

> TIA

> Oops

MMDDYYYY is NOT logical. Either one goes from the large to the small, i.e.
YYYYMMDD or vice versa, i.e. DDMMYYYY

Posted by Andy Levy on February 24, 2007, 8:10 am

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On 02/24/2007 07:54, sharx35 wrote:

>> Somehow the date display in my register got changed inadvertently

>> from MM/DD/YYYY to the european version of DD/MM/YYYY.

>> I could not find any reference in the Help file to change it back to

>> MM/DD/YYYY .

>> Does anyone know how to do that?

>> TIA

>> Oops

> MMDDYYYY is NOT logical. Either one goes from the large to the small, i.e.

> YYYYMMDD or vice versa, i.e. DDMMYYYY

You do realize that, logic or not, MM/DD/YYYY is the de facto standard
for dates in the US, right? And based on the OP's email address, he's in
the US.

Posted by Frank on February 25, 2007, 6:06 am

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>> Somehow the date display in my register got changed inadvertently

>> from MM/DD/YYYY to the european version of DD/MM/YYYY.

>> I could not find any reference in the Help file to change it back to

>> MM/DD/YYYY .

>> Does anyone know how to do that?

>> TIA

>> Oops

> MMDDYYYY is NOT logical. Either one goes from the large to the small,

> i.e. YYYYMMDD or vice versa, i.e. DDMMYYYY

I seem to remember that it was DD MM YYYY if one used numbers but
if one were writing a formal letter is was Month dd, yyyy. I don't know
when the illogical format started.

Posted by sharx35 on February 25, 2007, 9:08 am

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>>> Somehow the date display in my register got changed inadvertently

>>> from MM/DD/YYYY to the european version of DD/MM/YYYY.

>>> I could not find any reference in the Help file to change it back to

>>> MM/DD/YYYY .

>>>

>>> Does anyone know how to do that?

>>> TIA

>>> Oops

>> MMDDYYYY is NOT logical. Either one goes from the large to the small,

>> i.e. YYYYMMDD or vice versa, i.e. DDMMYYYY

> I seem to remember that it was DD MM YYYY if one used numbers but

> if one were writing a formal letter is was Month dd, yyyy. I don't know

> when the illogical format started.

I use this format when writing. Today is 25 February 2007. Perfectly logical
and no messy commas.