Date formats macOS Ventura

[Mark Smith]

Hi Mattias,

That is a terrific bit of sleuthing on your part so thanks for sharing. (and lets hope those options come back in future versions. It’s very strange that they would remove them.)

Mark


> On 8 Nov 2022, at 9:21 am, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Mark Clark's post 'LC Date Conversions post 2035 [OT ish]" made me play a little bit with 'the date' in LC.
> 
> I have macOS Ventura installed and noticed that the system date had a 2 digit year in LC.
> 
> So i went to the Control Pane to customize the date format. Unfortunately I had to realize that you no longer can set a user-defined date format or number format in Ventura.
> 
> Here in my German version of Ventura i could only choose between  dd.MM.yy and yyy-MM-dd. There is no way to customize
> the date and number format as it was possible with previous versions of macOS.
> In my case i am in need of the date format dd.MM.yyyy
> 
> I contacted the Apple support about this and it seems they even were not aware that this was changed in Ventura. They asked me to do a safe boot,
> create a new user account and finally they wanted me to reinstall Ventura, which i denied, because i was sure, that this has nothing to do with a faulty installation, but with Ventura itself.
> 
> Anyway, i searched the whole evening yesterday and found a  post in the apple forums
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254316210
> which has a workaround for this.
> 
> In short.
> 
> Method 1
> Either edit the file /Users/matthias/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
> and add
> <key>AppleICUDateFormatStrings</key>
> 	<dict>
> 		<key>1</key>
> 		<string>##custom date format##</string>
> 	</dict>
> 
> and replace ##custom date format## with you desired format. You can even add more format by increasing the <key> value
> 
> <key>AppleICUDateFormatStrings</key>
> 	<dict>
> 		<key>1</key>
> 		<string>##custom date format##</string>
> 		<key>2</key>
> 		<string>##custom date forma2t##</string>
> 	</dict>
> and so on...
> 
> After saving you have to logout and login again to get the settings active.
> 
> Method 2
> Another way is to use the shell. Using the shell does not need to logout and login again.
> 
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "1" "dd.MM.yyyy"
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "2" "dd.MM.yy"
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "3" "dd MMMM y"
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "4" "EEEE, d MMMM y"
> 
> 
> After you have set the date format using method 1 or 2, you will not see any "selected" date format in the region settins in the Control Panel, because the Control Panel does not support that anymore. The "field" is empty.
> As soon as you select a date format in the Control Panel, your previous settings from method 1 or 2  are overwritten and not used anymore. In this case you have to rerun one of the above steps.
> 
> Maybe this is of help for one or the other.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
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