International Dating
Can’t tell you how tempted I am to try to craft a whole post full of wordplay and mild double entendres, based off the concept of “international dating,” but I’ll spare you from that.
Last week we released a small feature that’s useful to those of you across the pond. Across both ponds, actually. Across all ponds, in fact. We’ve made the date formatting within PearBudget more flexible.
It turns out that in most places around the world, the typical date abbreviation puts the days first: DD/MM/YY. So “07/04″ is the abbreviation for April 7th … not July 4th, the way it is here in the States. We heard from a lot of our international users, requesting more flexibility around dating. (Again, the jokes kind of write themselves.) So we built that in.
If you’d like to change your account’s settings, just click on your e-mail address in the upper-right corner of your screen (once you’ve logged in to PearBudget, of course). You should see a spot where you can change your currency, and a spot where you can change your date structure. Don’t forget to save your account. And you might need to reload the page to see the change take hold.
It’s pretty straightforward, but, as always, just let us know if you have any questions or problems. (It’s probably best to e-mail us if you need help with anything … that way we can make sure we address your issues quickly.)
Thanks!
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Martin
07.03.08
The international time works great, thanks!
One thing though, I was entering receipts this morning at 7.30am (UK time) and the date was still showing yesterday’s date (2/8). It changed to 3/8 just after 8am.
Mark
07.11.08
Hi Charlie, I just tried out the international date feature, and it works in most cases. However when I tried to put in an income receipt using the international date format, it forced the date to July 10th no matter how many times I tried to change it. Also, when you edit an existing receipt the form doesn’t give you a calendar entry widget. This is on Mac OS X with both firefox and safari.
Thanks!
Mark
Charlie
07.18.08
Hey guys … sorry for the delayed updates from us on these. More WordPress issues that should now be resolved. *crosses fingers*
Martin, we have a fix for that that we’re working on, that should be on the site soon. I’ll try to put a blog post up about it once we have it working.
Mark, I’ll have to look at that. I wasn’t having that problem with my local machine, but I’ll see if I can replicate that issue. I might be in touch with you about it. Thanks for letting us know about it.
Micah Sittig
08.04.08
Thanks for this! I’m using PearBudget from Shanghai, China, and with the ability to customize the date format and the currency sign, I’m all set.
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