Dates Have Month & Day Reversed

Problem

Dates have month and day reversed! This happens mainly in dialogs like Pay Bills and Write Payroll in Goldenseal accounting software

Diagnosis

They are seeing weird dates. 20/12/03 for December 12, eg.

Solution

This is one of a whole series of bugs.

In early versions (1.0 to 2.1 or so) it's caused by our originally US-centric code not handling International dates with day-month-year (Europe) or year-month-day (Scandinavia) order. Complicated by the fact that we also allow users to set date display via Interface Preferences and Custom Layouts-- Date Format.

Once we started using Date Settings/Regional Settings for most date display, certain system date settings would break various specific code that misused the date formats in CDate. This happened almost entirely in the Win version, which has a wider variety of user-settable date formats. You'll probably see it in Pay Bills or Write Payroll.

Finally on 7/10/04 we changed the basic date format handling in CDate to be more unbreakable. No problems since.

In most cases the date reversal is just cosmetic, though for Pay Bills it can cause the invoices to show as overdue when they are not.

Either ignore it, or get the latest which solves the problem.

Comments

Entered 7/12/04 by Casey.