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Old 02-09-2012, 06:15 AM   #11
chaley
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
The date format is controlled by the locale of the computer running calibre. Normally, people in the US see MM/DD/YYYY while people in Europe see DD/MM/YYYY.
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice View Post
how odd. I'm definitely in The States (in Michigan, to be precise) and I see DD/MM/YY. This doesn't bother me at all, though.
My bad. The format is controlled by the tweaks under "Control how dates are displayed". The default for the timestamp (the "date" field) is "dd MMM yyyy". If you change it to "MM/dd/yyyy" you will get dates like "12/25/2011" instead of "25 Dec 2011".
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