Some comments from a first time user

[Martin Fink]

Thomas Zwatz wrote:
> 
> Jörg Pommnitz wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> > I have installed and used GnuCash-1.6.6 (from the SF SRPM) for the
> > first time yesterday. I like it very much but there are some
> > nits that I couldn't figure out or that are missing.
> >
> > 1.) Date format on display: it always uses the US-convention (e.g.
> >     mm/dd/yyyy) where I would like the dd.mm.yyyy format. Can I change
> >     this?
> 
> I use GNUCash in german, I assume, you are doing so too...
> Date Format can be set via
> "Einstellungen" --> "Einstellungen" --> "International" -->
> "Datumsformat" (in your case "Europaeisch")

or consider switching to ISO date format (which is also german DIN
format and european EN format)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/iso-time.html

Martin
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