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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] DATE FORMAT
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:52:56 -0600
References: <033e01c1d990$245edfc0$5ebc21cb@aapp1>


I always use the YYYY.MM.DD as I find it is easier to glance down the page
and easier to sort if you are using it in a spreadsheet application.
Unfortunately, the ca, bef, aft throws it off. but I break it off and put it
at the end, and it sorts fine.

Bonita -- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsay Graham" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: [TMG] DATE FORMAT



About a year ago, I asked whether it was possible to format dates as d Mmm
yyyy (1 Apr 2002) or d/m/yyyy (1/4/2002) to omit the leading zeros in day
and month. These options are not listed in the TMG System Configuration
screen. As I said then "Given that the insertion of leading zeros in dates
is a creature of the computer age (ie, people wrote 1/4/2002, not
01/04/2002, before typewriters and computers arrived), I am surprised that
options without the leading zero are not standard in TMG.

The answer seemed to be that it was not possible to do it in TMG (it could
be done by a Find and Replace in a report exported to a Word Processor, but
that is not a very satisfactory solution for me).

Has this option been included in the more recent versions, or is it planned
for version 5, or has anyone developed a workaround?

Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia


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