Gnucash 2.4.9 wrong date format for locale? (OS X 10.6.8)

[prl]

Hi, Titus.

I'm still having the same problem with the date when I set GnuCash 
Preferences>Date/Time>Date Format to "Locale". I'm running OSX Lion 
10.7.4 and GnuCash 2.4.11. It's not the stored dates changing, it's 
simply the way that they are displayed.

As I said in my original post, I can work around the problem by setting 
the date format to UK, but Australia stopped being (a colony of) the UK 
in 1901. It seems something's a bit slow on the uptake.

You can likewise work around the problem by using either UK format for 
dd/mm/yyyy or Europe format for dd.mm.yyyy.

But of course GnuCash should be using the correct date format for the 
locale.

And no, I don't think you've committed any netiquette faux pas.

Cheers,
Peter

On 26/07/12 03:22, titusn wrote:
> prl wrote
>> Gnucash 2.4.9, OS X 10.6.8
>>
>> I have Australia set for my locale (Region in OS X System
>> Preferences>Language & Text), and according to it, dates should be
>> d/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy in the formats that don't use the month name.
>> However, if GnuCash>Preferences>Date/Time is set to Locale, dates are
>> displayed (both in the preference panel and in registers) as mm/dd/yy.
>>
>> If I set the date format to be UK in GnuCash>Preferences>Date/Time, I
>> get the date format I want, but hey, I'm not in the UK, and my correctly
>> set Locale/Region should work with GnuCash 2.4.9. It worked just fine in
>> GnuCash 2.4.8. When I run Terminal, the only locale-related environment
>> variable I find is LANG=en_AU.UTF-8.
>>
>> Any other Snow Leopard (10.6.x) users in non-North American date format
>> areas having similar problems? Does Lion have similar problems? Windows
>> or Linux versions?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
> Gnucash 2.4.11, OS X 10.6.8 (and 10.7.4)
>
> Dear Peter,
>
> I don't know whether you already solved your problem, but I have the same
> trouble with the Dutch locale. It worked correctly under Snow Leopard in
> Gnucash 2.4.8, then I tried 2.4.10 on another system which is running Lion
> and the same files that were ok on the first system showed the wrong dates.
> I continued to install 2.4.11 on the first system and voila, all the dates
> changed back to the default US style. I'm using the following defaults:
>
> {
>      AppleLanguages =     (
>          nl,
>          en
>      );
>      AppleLocale = "nl_NL";
> }
>
> (see
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_Language_on_OSX
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_Language_on_OSX
> on how to set these)
>
> Hope anyone will pick this up, I will report it on the bugtracker, too.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Titus Nachbauer
>
> PS: as this is my first post to this list, please tell me if I made any
> netiquette mistake.
>
>
>
>
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