date format in register

[John Morris]

Hi Paula,
  I'm also using a Mac, so I also see the preferences under the GnuCash menu. However, I have not moved up to 2.6.6, so my view in 2.6.5 may be different from your view. That said, is the ISO 2013-07-31 option under Date Format a drop-down menu? When I click on ISO, I get a list of other date options. If I choose Locale 07/31/2013 or US 07/31/2013, all my registers' dates change to the new format. However, I do still get the leading zeros. I don't know of an option to remove them.

Best,
John

> On Apr 7, 2015, at 10:32 PM, paula hendricks <ph_calif at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> i'm using 2.6.6 on a mac...
> under edit there is no preferences option
> under gnu cash there is a preferences option and under preferences there is a date/ time option
> under the date/ time option there are limited choices:1. time format (check to use 24 hour clock2. date format (but the iso option is "2013-07-31" which doesn't get me to "7/31/13"
> what am i missing?
> thanks.
>         ph