System Settings - No Leading Zero for Dates

[southerndoc]

At some point, Ventura was updated to not allow a MM/dd/YYYY format. It's either M/d/YY or you have to choose something with the month first or year first.

So you can't choose 01/01/2023 instead of 1/1/23.

Why did Apple do this?

 

[southerndoc]

Someone I know from Discord sent me this link that solved my problem: https://www.caseyliss.com/2022/11/14/ventura-date-formats

 

[halledise]

try going to settings/general/language+region - there's a drop down box at 'date format'

 

[msackey]

I never understood the American way of writing MM/DD/YYYY. In the country where I was first schooled, we went with DD/MM/YYYY which is British/European. These days I use YYYY/MM/DD (or actually YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD, no forward slash) as it makes sorting order by file name a lot easier and makes way more sense generally.

 

[southerndoc]

try going to settings/general/language+region - there's a drop down box at 'date format'

I think you missed the point. That's where the settings have no leading zero option. There is no 01/01/2023 or 01/01/23 option. It's only 1/1/23 unless you choose a day/month or a year/month/day format.

 

[halledise]

I think you missed the point. That's where the settings have no leading zero option. There is no 01/01/2023 or 01/01/23 option. It's only 1/1/23 unless you choose a day/month or a year/month/day format.

i stand corrected.
there is however an option for 8/01/2023, 8.01.2023, etc.
to satisfy my curiosity, why is this 01/01/2023 important to you?

 

[southerndoc]

i stand corrected.
there is however an option for 8/01/2023, 8.01.2023, etc.
to satisfy my curiosity, why is this 01/01/2023 important to you?

Requirement for written documents by a contractor.

 

[msackey]

Requirement for written documents by a contractor.

If MM/DD/YYYY is the format to use, I agree too that leading zeroes should be used as it reduces certain errors, like mistaking 1 for 11, etc.

 

[jasnw]

Someone I know from Discord sent me this link that solved my problem: https://www.caseyliss.com/2022/11/14/ventura-date-formats

Did this work for you?

 

[southerndoc]

Did this work for you?

Yes. Did it on my laptop and desktop. Survived today's macOS update as well.