I believe the issue is not the output format, but rather how the input is being interpreted.
If he types in 1/12/2013, does that get interpreted as 1 December 2013 or as 12 January 2013. Legacy 7 had an option to specify how you wanted it interpreted. Legacy 8 does not have the option to specify. As I understand it from other postings, in Legacy 8, the interpretation is determined by a setting at the Windows operating system level. -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input format for dates On 18/12/2013 23:26, [email protected] wrote: > In Legacy 7, we could choose to input dates MM, DD, YYYY or DD, MM, > YYYY by going to Options/Customize/Dates/Input Format. Legacy 8's date > formatting page is similar but lacks the item Input Format. > > Please tell me how I can set my Input Format to day-month-year. I > have Dates Displayed As dd-month-year, I found that. I have been using > dd-mm-yyyy as my input format for over 15 years. I don't understand what you are asking. You can input a date in more or less any format you like and it will be formatted according to what you have selected in Options>Customise>5.1. If you have selected to display day-month-year and "format with 2-digit day/month" then you input "1 December 2013" it will display as "01 December 2013." Conversely, if you left "format with 2-digit day/month" UNselected and then input "01 December 2013" it will display as "1 December 2013." Incidentally, with that day-month-year format, if you input the month as "Dec" it will display as "December". -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
