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Article #853Re: KMyMoney on Ubuntu 8.10
From: Rob
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:22
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:22
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Lubiraz Alerano wrote:
> On Feb 22, 5:07 pm, Chris Taylor
> <chris.j.tay...@netoptus.au.com.nospam> wrote:
>> Hi I'm new to Linux can someone help me PLEASE. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 (
>> Loving it ) I'm trying to setup KMyMoney 0.9. It is trying to import the
>> files with a USA date YYYY/MM/DD I need it to be DD/MM/YYYY, has anyone
>> got any ideas how I can do this Thanks for any help
>> Chris
>
> How long are you with computers? It must be a short time if you don't
> remember the "year 2000 scare".
> The European DD/MM/XXyy AND American(British) MM/DD/XXyy dates formats
> are NOT for calculating machines = read computers. That resulted in
> 104 years old lady receiving request to enroll in kindergarten and
> other mistakes.
> So the date in format YYYY/MM/DD solves it once and for all, dates can
> cross centuries boundaries and present themselves in sequence. How to
> translate it into human "language", depends on programm abilities and
> your expertise of configuring this programm to do it.
>
The question is however this:
Chris probably wants it to display in dd/mm/yyyy format. Internal date and
external (display) date formats do NOT need to be identical.
BTW, yyyy/mm/dd is *not* US format but ISO format and is the appropriate one
for sorting data and thus for data selection, etc.
Rob.
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