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@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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
