Hi,

I work for a computer software company. We export data to Excel. We have a
client in South Africa where the date is getting muddled when it is exported
to Excel.

For example, if the date read 19/11/2009, when exported to Excel it would
read 2019/11/09 (as though it is changing the format from DD/MM/YYYY ti
YYDD/MM/YY.

I have tried changing the Regional settings and the language/date formats in
Excel but this does not seem to recitfy the issue.

Has anybody ever experienced this before? Any help would be gratefully
recieved.

(Just to confirm, this is not an issue for any other customer -
English/American/German etc)

It's not "changing the format", it's assuming your input is in yy/mm/dd
format. This is a very common (and most sensible) format.

Regional settings are in Windows, not Excel. Go to Control Panel, and change
the regional settings there.

Regards,
Fred.

"Jez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2C2CE912-0E7D-4A96-AF2F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I work for a computer software company. We export data to Excel. We have a
> client in South Africa where the date is getting muddled when it is
> exported
> to Excel.
>
> For example, if the date read 19/11/2009, when exported to Excel it would
> read 2019/11/09 (as though it is changing the format from DD/MM/YYYY ti
> YYDD/MM/YY.
>
> I have tried changing the Regional settings and the language/date formats
> in
> Excel but this does not seem to recitfy the issue.
>
> Has anybody ever experienced this before? Any help would be gratefully
> recieved.
>
> (Just to confirm, this is not an issue for any other customer -
> English/American/German etc)
>

If the data had been 19/11/09 instead of 19/11/2009, then it wouldn't have
been unreasonable to interpret it as YY/MM/DD instead of DD/MM/YY, but to
interpret the data as YY/MM/YYDD instead of DD/MM/YYYY would be strange.
--
David Biddulph


"Fred Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:u$(E-Mail Removed)...
> It's not "changing the format", it's assuming your input is in yy/mm/dd
> format. This is a very common (and most sensible) format.
>
> Regional settings are in Windows, not Excel. Go to Control Panel, and
> change the regional settings there.
>
> Regards,
> Fred.
>
> "Jez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2C2CE912-0E7D-4A96-AF2F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I work for a computer software company. We export data to Excel. We have
>> a
>> client in South Africa where the date is getting muddled when it is
>> exported
>> to Excel.
>>
>> For example, if the date read 19/11/2009, when exported to Excel it would
>> read 2019/11/09 (as though it is changing the format from DD/MM/YYYY ti
>> YYDD/MM/YY.
>>
>> I have tried changing the Regional settings and the language/date formats
>> in
>> Excel but this does not seem to recitfy the issue.
>>
>> Has anybody ever experienced this before? Any help would be gratefully
>> recieved.
>>
>> (Just to confirm, this is not an issue for any other customer -
>> English/American/German etc)
>>
>

Check your other post.

Jez wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I work for a computer software company. We export data to Excel. We have a
> client in South Africa where the date is getting muddled when it is exported
> to Excel.
>
> For example, if the date read 19/11/2009, when exported to Excel it would
> read 2019/11/09 (as though it is changing the format from DD/MM/YYYY ti
> YYDD/MM/YY.
>
> I have tried changing the Regional settings and the language/date formats in
> Excel but this does not seem to recitfy the issue.
>
> Has anybody ever experienced this before? Any help would be gratefully
> recieved.
>
> (Just to confirm, this is not an issue for any other customer -
> English/American/German etc)

--

Dave Peterson