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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:07:00 +1100, Chris Taylor 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

There's a heap of alternative date format options in the QIF profile
editor. Have you tried playing with that?

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:13:40 +0000, Mark wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:07:00 +1100, Chris Taylor 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
> 
> There's a heap of alternative date format options in the QIF profile
> editor. Have you tried playing with that?

the way I see them is they only change the import date don't seem to 
change everyday date format

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.

Have fun.

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.

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 

Chris Taylor 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

I can't answer your question, but if you don't solve the problem you may
want to have a look at SQL Ledger - http://sql-ledger.org . It's an
impressive, fully-featured Linux accounts package. I'm sure SQL Ledger
will be able to do what you want.


-- 
http://NovemberEchoRomeoDelta.com

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:19:36 +0000, Will Kemp wrote:
> I'm sure SQL Ledger will be able to do what you want.

I'm sure KMM can do what he wants as well, at least if he could explain
it a little better.

KMM is a under-appreciated gem. I run my personal and business affairs
using it and recording invoices + expenses with GST/VAT tracking etc.
Gone are the head banging experiences I suffered using Quicken and nor
is the vendor trying to fleece my pockets periodically.