On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 10:27:20 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Yannick LE NY writes:
> <snip>
> > It is posible to have a function in gnucash that display dinamically date
in
> > format MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY and with the import function from qif files wi
th
> > the same thing else we need 2 packages of gnucash.
>
> There is already code to do this in CVS - if you're running the gnome
> version have a look at the "International" page of the preferences
> dialog.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not completely supported yet, as the GNOME date
> selection widget doesn't properly support internationalized date
> formatting. This will be fixed, but won't be generally available
> until a new major release of gnome as it involves an incompatible API
> change.
That sounds interesting; hopefully the international support will come
soon.
> QIF import is unaffected by date formats, AFAIK, as QIF encodes dates
> into a common format.
This isn't *quite* true; it appears that different versions of Quicken
encode dates differently, with differences including different
delimiters (e.g. - "/" versus "-" versus ".").
QIFIO.c now does support the various delimiters, and has a *limited*
ability to recognize which date component is which.
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