can't figure out how to enter dates
can't figure out how to enter dates
I can't figure out dates in the new version of bookpedia. Searched through help and forums and don't see anything that is helpful. I changed the preferences to be MM/d/YY which at least allows me to display dates the way I prefer, and dates that I entered in the old version are showing up correctly. But when I enter dates they get remapped to something weird. I've tried entering the information in a lot of different ways, but the displayed date is always wrong. I want to enter the standard US way of MM/DD/YY or MM/d/Y or whatever. I am ok with having to enter the full year, so, for example, November 16, 2011, entered as 11/16/2011. However, when I enter that, it is translated to 12/20/2009. Is there anything, anywhere, that explains how to enter dates (and no I do not want to have to click on a calendar and click through months and months to get to the right month when it is freaking 10 years off)? I've been trying for 15mins to get the right date for this book I'm entering and haven't been able to figure out it.
Re: can't figure out how to enter dates
When you click on the little help mark (the purple question mark) next to the date fields in the Preferences/General you'll be taken to this section in the Help files that has more details about the date format options. For more options still, please take a look at this website.
If your dates still don't come out correctly after that, please send me your Database.bookpd file so I can try to reproduce the problem here. You'll find the file in your Home folder under ~/Library/Application Support/Bookpedia/Database.bookpd. Please archive the file before sending it to save space. (Select it and choose 'Archive' or 'Compress' from the File menu. That'll create a new file called 'Database.bookpd.zip' which you can then attach to the email.)
If you're on Lion, it hides the Library folder by default so to go to your Bookpedia data folder you have to use the Finder's 'Go' menu, hold down the Option key and the Library folder will appear.
If your dates still don't come out correctly after that, please send me your Database.bookpd file so I can try to reproduce the problem here. You'll find the file in your Home folder under ~/Library/Application Support/Bookpedia/Database.bookpd. Please archive the file before sending it to save space. (Select it and choose 'Archive' or 'Compress' from the File menu. That'll create a new file called 'Database.bookpd.zip' which you can then attach to the email.)
If you're on Lion, it hides the Library folder by default so to go to your Bookpedia data folder you have to use the Finder's 'Go' menu, hold down the Option key and the Library folder will appear.
Re: can't figure out how to enter dates
It looks like it was the caps, I needed yyyy instead of YYYY. The dates are ok now. Thank you.