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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:22:33 +1100, Rob wrote:

> 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.

Well this may very well be true or not that don't matter to me I live in 
Australia and would like to be able to use the same date format as I and 
every other Australian use in Quicken and many other programs