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jbellomo
Inspiring
June 12, 2018
Question

Change Date format

  • June 12, 2018
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Is there a way to change the date format in the Media browser column? Right now it is YYYY-MM-DD I would like to change it to MM-DD-YYYY

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    sarahl39753622
    sarahl39753622
    New Participant
    September 20, 2018

    My problem is that in the Acrobat Reader app on my MacBook, the date format is how I want it when I view "Recent" (i.e. DD/MM/YYYY) but in the Document Cloud it's showing MM/DD/YYYY.

    If anyone knows how to sort the date format so that it's DD/MM/YYYY throughout the app, that'd be great for me too!

    Mike Dziennik
    Mike Dziennik
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2018

    Its better for everyone if we only use YYYYMMDD for the reasons listed above.

    DDMMYYYY was acceptable before computers.

    MMDDYYYY is just plain wrong, people should stop using it and it has no justification.

    sarahl39753622
    sarahl39753622
    New Participant
    September 20, 2018

    The dates are probably stored in the backend in the format YYYYMMDD but they should be displayed to the end user in the end user's locale, and they should be the same format whichever list the end user is viewing within the same app!

    The locale for the UK is en-GB (usually d mmmm yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy) and I expect all lists within Acrobat Reader to display the dates in that locale, but some do and others don't.

    BTW - there are many different formats for dates for different locales around the world, and none of them are "wrong" in respect to the front end/user interface, e.g:

    yyyy-mm-dd

    dd/mm/yyyy

    dd.mm.yyyy

    d mmmm yyyy

    dd/mm/yy

    Thanks,

    Sarah

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Brainiac
    June 12, 2018

    That's how it's recorded in the media file.  You can't change that.

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    jbellomoAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 12, 2018

    Every thing in the media browser date column is like that , it doesn't matter on how it is recorded.

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Brainiac
    June 12, 2018

    There are no user adjustments for this.

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    Mariam Hovhannesyan
    Community Expert
    June 12, 2018

    What's the difference in yyyy mm dd and mm dd yy in both cases it will probably have the same following in case you didn't shoot for several years.

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    jbellomoAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 12, 2018

    Because we look at dates that way not year first

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Brainiac
    June 12, 2018

    The reason the date format is displayed that way is that is the way all date data needs to be formatted for proper sorting. And ... I think that's the only way date data is displayed in that panel.

    Neil

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