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

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On 27/07/12 03:10, tjoen wrote:
> titusn schreef op do 26-07-2012 om 01:11 [-0700]:
>> Thanks for the swift reply. The workarounds do not seem to be working for
>> me. It just keeps defaulting to the US format regardless of what I chose in
>> the properties dialog. Luckily one of the programmers could reproduce this
>> behaviour and is already tracking the bug. So hopefully it will be solved
>> in a newer version.
> I am not familiar with OS X. Is the libc like glibc?
> i.e. does it have the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU ?
No, OS X doesn't have /usr/share/i18n/locales; its locales are in 
/usr/share/locale. And while that locale setting would be appropriate 
for me, it wouldn't be appropriate for titusn, who is in the 
Netherlands, not in Australia. His locale is set to NL_nl and according 
to its locale file, his dates should be displayed as 31-7-2012 or 
31-07-2012.
> And do you have the tool localedef ?
> Then perhaps it is possible to adjust it.
Locale setup in OS X is normally done using System Preferences>Language 
& Text>Formats. My setup shows that the locale setting for dates that 
don't use the month name is 31/07/2012 or 31/7/2012, depending on 
whether leading zeros are required in the dates. It seems to be just 
GnuCash that gets this wrong. Titusn's locale setup also appears to me 
to be correct. I have tested the Dutch/Netherlands locale on my Mac, and 
I can verify that GnuCash uses the date format 07/31/2012 when it's set 
to Locale, and not the format it should be using for that 
Dutch/Netherlands, 31-07-2012. However, unlike titusn, I can still get 
both the Gnucash Date/Time preferences UK (31/07/2012) or Europe 
(31.07.2012) date formats to work when the machine locale setting is 
Dutch/Netherlands, while he doesn't seem to be able to get either to work.

Surely the use of GnuCash on OS X beyond the USA and South Africa (which 
also appears to use 07/31/2010) is widespread enough that this bug 
affects more people than just titusn and me!

Peter