Hi,


I have noticed that although in the General Info section the Purchased Date is displayed correctly for my PC and Europe with DD/MM/YYYY, when I export the date is stored in the format YYYY/MM/DD.

Does anyone know a way to change this as it then unreadable in the application that I want to import it into.


Thanks,

Dave

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Hi,


I have noticed that although in the General Info section the Purchased Date is displayed correctly for my PC and Europe with DD/MM/YYYY, when I export the date is stored in the format YYYY/MM/DD.

Does anyone know a way to change this as it then unreadable in the application that I want to import it into.


Thanks,

Dave

The export uses the standardized date format. To use something else would be really bad, because then the XML cannot be used on operating systems which has another date format than the PC you created the XML on (it would loose its purpose as a data exchange format).

It is the job of the other application to convert it to the format it needs the date (which is a simple operation).

You have 3 options:
1) The author of the other application fixes the import
2) You change the XML yourself (e.g. with a script which parses the XML and changes the values)
3) (I do not know if this will work. Depends on the other application): You temporarily set your system's setting to YYYY/MM/DD. But I think the problem is more, that the other application cannot handle the ISO date format, no matter which system setting is set.