Date format in current plot date

[Bertf 17]

Hi,

 

My current plot date short format in VW is MM/dd/yy but my computer regional settings are dd/MM/yy. any way to point VW to my own pc's regional settings?

 

Thank you

 

VW:

 

PC:

Edited December 18, 2017 by Bertf

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

Hello Bertf,

 

Could you please fill in a bug report with attached test file?

 

Thanks,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Kevin McAllister 912]

Related wish - https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/53677-ability-to-change-the-format-of-current-plot-date/#comment-269528

 

Kevin

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

Hello Bertf,

 

Sorry about the confusion, seems like you do not have access to the bug submitting system. We will investigate this issue further more and let you know, when there is progress on it.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Kevin McAllister 912]

Hi Nikolay,

 

Can I ask about how the Short / Medium / Long formats are defined? They don't seem to match the operating system settings on my Mac which is what I would expect. Below are some example screen shots.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

 

First my machine settings 

 

 

Short

Medium

Long

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

Hello Kevin,

 

At this time, there are only these 3 formats for plot date, that you have showed in the pictures. The wish you have mentioned above is covering the functionality you are asking about.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Bertf 17]

Okay, thank you for the information!

[Kevin McAllister 912]

7 minutes ago, Nikolay Zhelyazkov said:

Hello Kevin,

 

At this time, there are only these 3 formats for plot date, that you have showed in the pictures. The wish you have mentioned above is covering the functionality you are asking about.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

 

Thanks Nikolay. I guess I'm not understanding what's different about this thread and what's being asked for in the wish. I'm not asking for another format. I'm asking what determines the VW formats since they don't match the system settings.

Cheers,

Kevin

 

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

16 hours ago, Kevin McAllister said:

I'm asking what determines the VW formats since they don't match the system settings.

 

The formats should be taken from the system settings, but, as you have mentioned, this is not the case, meaning there is a bug, that we will have to look into. Thanks for pointing this out!

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Thomas Peters 1]

On 12/19/2017 at 10:33 AM, Nikolay Zhelyazkov said:

 

The formats should be taken from the system settings, but, as you have mentioned, this is not the case, meaning there is a bug, that we will have to look into. Thanks for pointing this out!

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

It has now been just under 12 months since this bug was reported, several service packs have come and gone, and I have paid for my VW2018 license which presumably won't see another service pack. Has this bug really not yet been addressed?

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

Hello @Thomas Peters,

 

Thanks for reminding me about this. I have forgotten to update you on the progress here.

This bug is fixed in SP2 of VW 2019.

Meanwhile, there are more options for Plot Date Format in VW 2019 SP0, that could be helpful without the fix in SP2.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Thomas Peters 1]

Thank you @Nikolay Zhelyazkov, I've hijacked this thread only because I've googled this problem that's been annoying me several times in the last few months. 

Unfortunately Service Packs to VW2019 do not help me, having purchasing my 2018 license in April 2018. 

 

To be clear, a broken function reported almost 12 months ago has been ignored over the course of 5(.2) service packs and there's no hope for any remedy?

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

The fix for this was not trivial and required some time for analyzing. I do not think the fix could be integrated in earlier versions/service packs.

[Bas Vellekoop 84]

I just now see that in VW 2019 it is possible to choose custom formats!

This really makes my day! 🎉🎉 So much better when you can exports pdfs starting with YY-MM-DD

 

Thank you so much @Nikolay Zhelyazkov and all the other VW-people who made this possible!

I think allot of customers will appreciate this.

 

@_c_ where you aware of this al ready?

[_c_ 172]

No! It is THERE!

Nikolay, wonderful! There was people here not using the old title block because the date format would be "strange"!

 

 

[Dan Hoffman 2]

Follow-up question - where are these custom date formats defined, and how would one go about changing them? 

Better than the previous version, but still missing some things, i.e. DD MMM YYYY / 28 Dec 2018....

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

On 12/28/2018 at 5:59 PM, Dan Hoffman said:

Follow-up question - where are these custom date formats defined, and how would one go about changing them? 

Better than the previous version, but still missing some things, i.e. DD MMM YYYY / 28 Dec 2018....

- Unfortunately, I do not think that there is any way to change these values.

[Dan Hoffman 2]

Has this already been filed as a known issue to be fixed in future versions? Where are the date formats coming from - the OS or as part of the sheet border / title block tool?

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov 67]

On 1/4/2019 at 7:07 PM, Dan Hoffman said:

Has this already been filed as a known issue to be fixed in future versions? Where are the date formats coming from - the OS or as part of the sheet border / title block tool?

- The Auto-Custom date formats were added as a workaround for the other incorrect date formats and are not editable. However, now the other date formats are fixed in SP-2 of VW2019 and are taken from the OS, so "Auto-Short", "Auto-Medium" or "Auto-Long" should get the job done.