Changed Entry Dates after updating from 2.6.4-2 to 2.6.6 and/or 2.6.7

[nvsoar]

On 7/6/2015 7:09 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:54 PM, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/5/2015 4:41 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>> On Jul 5, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Detlef Kattenstroth <detlef.kattenstroth at web.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am using Gnucash version 2.6.4-2 on Windows 8.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Everything works fine and proper here, but then I updated to
>>>> 2.6.6 and
>>>>
>>>> all of a sudden all the dates of my entries changed with the
>>>> most recent
>>>>
>>>> ones set to NOVEMBER 2060, so I reverted back to 2.6.4-2 and
>>>> all was back well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After 2.6.7 came out I updated to it and got exactly the
>>>> very same result. All my
>>>>
>>>> entry dates were changed with the most recent set to
>>>> NOVEMBER 2060. So I
>>>>
>>>> reverted back to 2.6.4-2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What could be the problem of this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help in advance
>>> That’s pretty strange. I take it these are the posted dates in the account registers? What backend are you using?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> FWIW - I ran into trouble when I attempted to use a non-standard date format ( the unambiguous ddmmmyyyy, eg 05Jul2015) rather than the default date format.  Reverted to the default format, no more date problem.
> Could you be more specific about that, please? Where did you set the date format and where were you seeing the incorrectly parsed dates?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
If the "you" is nvsoar, then the answer to the questions are that I 
didn't set 'ddmmmyyyy' as a format; just entered the date in the 
register entries in that fashion.  This was several versions back and I 
am now unable to recollect the problem that I was unable to fix other 
than by using the default date format for my locale -(USA).
nvsoar