Ventura: short date separator

[7422736m]

Hi all!
Just updated to Ventura and everything went fine.
One thing I just noticed: usually I change short date format to DD.MM.YY but for some reason I just can’t find the option to apply a custom separator to the short date format. At least it is morning the same screen as in Monterey.
Any help from you guys?

 

[usagora]

chibante? Are you talking about the date at the far right of the Menu Bar?

 

[7422736m]

chibante? Are you talking about the date at the far right of the Menu Bar?

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I meant change, not chibante. Autocorrect sucks 🙂
No, that is not possible to change, not even on Monterey. I am talking about the setting on Regional setting on Monterey, that applies the setting throughout the system. For example, on excel spreadsheets.

 

[usagora]

I meant change, not chibante. Autocorrect sucks 🙂
No, that is not possible to change, not even on Monterey. I am talking about the setting on Regional setting on Monterey, that applies the setting throughout the system. For example, on excel spreadsheets.

Ok, you mean this, correct?

 

[7422736m]

Ok, you mean this, correct?

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That’s it.
With Monterey we had the option to use any character. With Ventura, we’re limited to those two options.

 

[usagora]

That’s it.
With Monterey we had the option to use any character. With Ventura, we’re limited to those two options.

I found out if you change the region, the date formatting options change as well. Germany, for example, has the dd.mm.yy format you're looking for:

Not sure if changing the region will have an undesired effect elsewhere, though.

 

[7422736m]

I found out if you change the region, the date formatting options change as well. Germany, for example, has the dd.mm.yy format you're looking for:

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Not sure if changing the region will have an undesired effect elsewhere, though.

Not sure.
But it’s a huge step back when compared with Monterey.
Apple being Apple.

 

[usagora]

Not sure.
But it’s a huge step back when compared with Monterey.
Apple being Apple.

Well at least you have a solution now 🙂

 

[7422736m]

In fact, this is no solution.
I am not living in Germany and I believe that would impact several other options like, for example, the holiday calendar.
I wonder if Apple buried the option anywhere else....

 

[scott721]

If you are a Keyboard Maestro user you can easily overcome this limitation by using the "Insert Date" action and changing the default formatting to:

%ICUDateTime%MM.dd.yy%

This will yield a date of:

12.02.22

Modify, if you wish, to make it a four-digit date along the lines of:

%ICUDateTime%MM.dd.yyyy%

Which will yield today's date as:

12.02.2022

 

[gilby101]

I have just added post #5 to https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/finder-date-format.2372284/ with some links about how to fix the four date formats in Ventura (Short, Medium, Long, Full).