I would like to request the addition of a date format in the Preferences section.
Could you please add DD-MMM-YY. For example 21-Nov-19.
Currently there is DD-MMM YY, but its missing the hyphen (-) in between the year and month.
The reason i would like this is to make searching easier. Currently my date format is set to DD-MMM YY and if i want to search in the Receipts and Payments section for Nov 19, the results seems to pull in extra dates that i dont want. I guess because its searching for Nov AND 19 and not just āNov 19ā together. If my date was set to DD-MMM-YY i could search for NOV-19 and get the correct results.
I didnāt realise that any country adopted the MM-DD-YYYY format. I thought all middle endian countries used a slash: MM/DD/YYYY.
It is unusual to see middle endian with hyphens as hyphens are almost always used to denote a flow of state, small to large, or large to small. By using them with middle endian it totally confuses all known (to me) formats.
I have spent a lot of time and effort on date formats used around the world because I find it so annoying there are so many different āstandardsā. As such I always personally adopt ISO 8601 to avoid any ambiguity, and if anyone was to ever use YYYY-DD-MM I think I would have a meltdown! lol
Iām just curious and not attacking at all, but what country is this? (or is it just personal preference?)
The real issue is the hyphen. It is one of the āStandardā formats in almost all software. I have searched through my OS, Excel and a couple of other programs and the all have dd-mmm-yy, with hyphen, but NONE had dd-mmm yy as a standard.
To advise a different search method to circumnavigate a non standard format is poppycock.
Just add the hyphen and it conformsā¦simple.
TBH, Iāve never seen it before either and agree, it seems odd that itās not there by default. It really (IMHO) should be user customisable as it is in most software these days, have a free form field that letās the user put in whatever format suits them.
At any rate, Iāve realised that I totally misread the first post anyway, the OP had nothing to do with middle endian format, which in turn makes me look like a crazy person in that last post! lol
you are aware though, that this is in reference to that standard which is largest to smallest. This standard doesnāt cover dd-mm-yyyy and dd-mmm-yyy options.
I could also use the date suggested by @Hosea_Leonard but i kind of like the date i mentioned e.g. 12-Nov-19 and thatās what i want to show up on my invoices.
I would guess its not that hard to implement so why not?
User customisable like @d3mad suggested would be best i think though.
Based on that research it would appear that Manager is listing a non-standard date format.
Therefore I will list this as a bug so that it can be corrected.
Previous implementation would take date formats from underlying operating system. Apparently, dd-MMM yy date format is defined on Windows as short date format for Kyrgyzstan.
Anyway, itās probably better if the list of possible date formats is hard-coded in the software so the options are same everywhere. Previously youād see different options under different operating systems. The latest version will show the same options under all operating systems.
lol