Data Stamp - ISO vs American standards

[Jim Smith]

I have assisted a friend in the USA by Importing a DWG file he couldn't open, & adding the imported file to one of his files. Problem is he has an older version of VW so I had to Export the file to VW2015. It seems in doing so the file he opens now has a Data Stamp with my ISO style date convention (YEAR, MONTH, DATE) rather than what he's used to (MONTH, DAY, YEAR). There does not seem to be any documentation on this issue. How do we fix this for this file & how do we avoid this if we do this agin in the future?

 

Thanks!

[Jim Smith]

There is no way to alter this with the Data Stamp's settings & under the PLUG-IM Manager there does seem there may be way to alter this, but I don't want to mess with this until I know what I'm doing. Any help or advice would be appreciated. 

[Art V]

What happens if you temporarily set your system to US localizations and then export the file again? Would it switch the data stamp back to US style? Or, perhaps an easier way, just change your date/time setting to US instead of your entire OS.

[Jim Smith]

Thanks

I'll try that. What I find odd is his location is American so one would think that that would override what's in the file.

 

[Jim Smith]

Hmm, neither one of these result in VW changing the Date format. Perhaps I should just tell him to join the rest of the word?

[Art V]

Just now, Jim Smith said:

Perhaps I should just tell him to join the rest of the word?

ISO Has been trying that for years, so abandon all hope for that to happen
Though the ISO units are officially accepted in the US and once they were about to convert to metric units but then chickened out and remained on Imperial units (or US Customary units as we call them by now)

[Jim Smith]

Yeah, I'm an old enough geezer to remember that happening. As a result I still have to occasionally print plans for contractors in Canada who won't go to the hardware store & purchase a metric tape measure. Always funny when despite the warning "DO NOT SCALE DRAWINGS" when one of these cowboys discovers, "Oh, the scale on this plan is 1:100 not 1:96"

 

[Art V]

Yes, those things can be funny. As long as they are not mixing up Imperial and US Gallons when calculating volumes or other similar but different units. The US Survey Foot is one of those pesky things that can make you trip over with as it is one of the lesser known units. (Which reminds me to make a wish list item for that )

[Jim Smith]

We still run into legacy surveys with Decimal Feet as the go to unit. I'm going to wish list the Barley Corn as a unit!

[Jim Smith]

Solution, of sorts: Delete the Data Stamp instances in the resulting file in the USA. Replace each example with a new Data Stamp and this fixes the problem. I'm still curious why changing my time & location to south of the 49th parallel didn't adjust my data stamp to an American version. 

[Art V]

I just set my input settings for date/time to US and still get the European style of formatting (D/M/Y) instead of the US style (M/D/Y). Even restarting VW does not make a difference. Maybe a system restart might, but that should not be necessary.

Seems like it might be a bug with the date stamp tool.

[Jim Smith]

Might be. I took a look at the original VW 2015 file sent to me from the USA & it has an American Date format in the original document when I open it in my Canuck version of VW, but the opposite is true when the file has been modified in VW 2018 in Canada & exported to VW 2015 & opened in the USA. As I say, replacing the Data Stamp in the US fixes the issue, but this is a head scratcher.