riseringseeker Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 I am putting my contacts (e-mail, snailmail, phones, b'days, etc.) in Kontact, but can't seem to figure out how to set the default format for dates in Kontact. I've tried to import all the data using a CSV file I saved from a OpenOffice spreadsheet. Cutting and pasting the info from various sources into the spreadsheet, saving to a CVS file and importing that into Kontact resulted in 4 different date formats being used by kontact. All the dates in the CVS file were in mm/dd/yyyy format. When I open the contact (edit), the birthday shows, but the anniversary does not, though both show in the summary, and in the calendar/alerts. When I try to simply enter a date in the "New Contact"-"Details" as mm/dd/yyyy it refuses it saying that I must enter a valid date. Where do I (or can I) set the default date format for entries in Kontact? I would prefer mm/dd/yyyy, but am currently getting yyyy-mm-dd, dd.mm.yyyy, mm/dd/yy (wrong century), and one other I forgot what is/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Try the KDE control center, region & accacibility, country, tab time and date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riseringseeker Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Try the KDE control center, region & accacibility, country, tab time and date. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That is set correctly (or should I say the way I prefer it?). When the dates are imported via a CVS file the birthdays and anniversaries come out formatted the way I prefer (mm/dd/yyyy) - but - when I open one of those contacts with the editor, ("edit contact"-"details"), the birthday shows properly, but the anniversary does not show at all. The anniversaries *do* show on the calendar/alerts properly though, even though it is not shown by the editor! When I manually enter a birthday (either by editing an existing file, or creating a new one), it comes out in the desired format (mm/dd/yyyy), however, when I enter the anniversary in exactly the same manner, it comes out formatted as yyyy-mm-dd. My question is, is there a separate place to format (the anniversary) date *within* Kontact/Korganizer that is not affected by the system setting, and if so where is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Try exporting the data from Kontact (kadressbook) as a CSV-list and compare it with the list from OOo. Perhaps it will give some leads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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