Date format in reports

[Dave Peticolas]

On 17 Jun 2001 23:46:06 +1000, David Overton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed GnuCash 1.6.0 and it is amazing improvement over
> 1.4.x.  Much thanks to everyone involved.
> 
> I have some questions though:  how do you change the date format that
> appears in reports?  I have date format set to 'UK' (which we also use
> in Australia) in the GnuCash preferences, but the reports still show the
> date in US format.  I can't see any way to change this.

This is a bug -- it will be fixed in 1.6.1. Thanks!


> Another minor internationalisation niggle:  most currencies are
> displayed using their ISO currecy code, but USD seems to be displayed
> using the '$' symbol.  My default currency is AUD, but I have a couple
> of USD accounts and it seems a bit non-uniform (and potentially
> confusing) to have '$' used for USD.  If I wanted to use '$' for
> anything, it would be AUD, but I would prefer to just use the proper
> currency abbreviations.  Am I missing some preferences setting that
> controls this?

Try doing an 'export LANG=en_AU'.

dave