Thanks, Rob, for your suggestion, it is a good one. I am a creature of habit so I have changed my Windows date to the format I want and all is fine.
Elsie From: Rob Vader Sent: Thursday, 19 December, 2013 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input format for dates Would it be an idea to enter (e.g.) "12 jan 2013"....or "Jan 12, 2013" just to be sure that at least the input is correct? You can then check how Legacy translates it on screen. That is how I do it at least... Rob On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Kurt Kneeland <[email protected]> wrote: 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 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
