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Join nowI have Mac OS 10.12.1, Quickbooks for Mac 2016 V17.1.8 R9
My Mac date short date has been set to 05/01/16 (5 Jan 16), medium to 5 Jan 16. As soon as I enter a date prior to today QB changes the format to 16/01/05, when I save the transaction with this date it is in a different year.
How do I fix this?
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Greetings, andre.
Thanks for posting.
QuickBooks uses the system date format from your Mac system preferences. The first thing we can do is quit QuickBooks, go into your System Preferences and change (toggle) the date format to MM/DD/YY from DD/MM/YY, then exit out of system preferences and launch QuickBooks. Does that date format work? If it does, quit QuickBooks again and go back to system preferences. Set the date back to the original one and relaunch QuickBooks and see if it still works.
Please let me know how it goes. Thanks a lot.
Greetings, andre.
Thanks for posting.
QuickBooks uses the system date format from your Mac system preferences. The first thing we can do is quit QuickBooks, go into your System Preferences and change (toggle) the date format to MM/DD/YY from DD/MM/YY, then exit out of system preferences and launch QuickBooks. Does that date format work? If it does, quit QuickBooks again and go back to system preferences. Set the date back to the original one and relaunch QuickBooks and see if it still works.
Please let me know how it goes. Thanks a lot.
I have a similar issue but instead of short date I want the long date xx/xx/xxxx. Is there anyway to change this? I read that QB follows what my Mac preferences are so I changed my short date format to show the complete year. Now when I launch QB it pops a window (see attached) basically stating they will not follow my preferences and defaults to short date. Is there another way to make this happen or a region that QB would follow to have the complete year be shown? Thanks
Thanks for joining this thread and for the screenshot, amgloans.
For now, QuickBooks Desktop for Mac defaults the date to 2-digit year format.
I'll take note and send your feedback to our Product Engineers Team. This way, they can discuss how to add the xx/xx/xxxx format.
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I agree that Quickbooks Mac 2016 dates should be able to update to a xx/xx/xxxx format, especially now that we're in 2020...wherein someone could otherwise write in the year after just "20"
Yes! Please refer for a fix to this!