OK I opened the 'Language and Region' settings panel and clicked on the ‘Advanced’ button and then clicked on the Tab for ‘Dates’
There is a field with a setting for “Short” which was 2020-01-05. I replaced the hyphens with slashes. I had to quit and relaunch LiveCode for the change to take effect. After I had done that the command 'put the system date’ returns '2020/05/04’ If I click 'Restore Defaults' in the ‘Dates' tab of the advanced 'Language and Region' settings panel my short date format goes back to 2020-05-04. Martin > On May 4, 2020, at 2:43 PM, Martin Koob via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Huh, I get 2020-05-04 here in Canada. Not sure what my region settings are. > > > Regards, > > Martin Koob > > > > > >> On May 4, 2020, at 2:39 PM, Jacques Hausser via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> My region settings are by default. But I would not be surprised if the >> problem comes from Apple. >> >>> Le 4 mai 2020 à 20:21, matthias rebbe via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> a écrit : >>> >>> I tried here with DP4 on Mac OS 10.14.6. >>> >>> I definitely get 04.05.20 when running your script. >>> >>> Either this has to do with 10.15.4 or.... >>> Are you sure your region settings are correct. ;) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Matthias >>> >>> >>> >>> - >>> Matthias Rebbe >>> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code >>> >>>> Am 04.05.2020 um 20:07 schrieb Jacques Hausser via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >>>> >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> >>>> Back to LC after a long time out. I’m using LC 9.6.0(dp 4) on Mac OS >>>> 10.15.4, and I just discovered that Livecode seems totally deaf to the >>>> words “system date”. EG: >>>> >>>> put the date into today >>>> convert today to system date >>>> put today into fld 1 >>>> >>>> returns 5/4/20 instead of 04.05.20 >>>> >>>> Is "system date" deprecated? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode