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Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

ntahall — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:28:33 GMT

That's a disaster. Dates are critical for tax purposes and Neat Co need to get their act together.

I'm testing out Marine Paperless (was Receipt Wallet) to see how I get on. Has anyone had any experience of it?

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

slessard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:50:37 GMT

I've reported so many bugs with date parsing, but the product team doesn't appear to view date parsing bugs as a high priority issue.

Off the top of my head...

1. In any date field enter the date as 8/25/09 for August 25, 2009. Neat Works parses it to 08/25/9 as in August 25, 9, as in the year Jesus Christ was walking the Earth. This is actually the Y2K bug!!!!

2. In any date field enter the date as 8/25/20009, yes that's 3 zeros. NeatWorks parses it to 08/25/2000. Instead of truncating the date it should instead report that the date is invalid and ask me to re-enter the value.

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

ntahall — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:55:07 GMT

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

ntahall — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:40:04 GMT

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

ntahall — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:33:55 GMT

I have my preferences set to "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S".

However, I have to check all of the dates. A receipt with "6 August 2009" comes through as "2009-06-08 00:00:00".

So the month and day are swapped - probably an inheritance of the US v. European date format differences, but this is no excuse! YYYY-MM-DD format is the ISO standard!

Worse still for a receipt with "16 August 2009" this comes through as "2009-08-16 00:00:00"!!!! Presumably because there can be no 16th month.

What a disaster. How can such inconsistencies pass through any decent quality controls, especially when accuracy is key to accounting.

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

ciara — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:02:00 GMT

i changed the date format to %m-%d-%Y - which shows correctly in the example (04-15-2009) - but everywhere in the app it shows it as Thu Apr 09 2009 ml

Re: Change the date format used by NeatWorks

Mike L — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:36:39 GMT

You can also do this by going to the NeatWorks menu and choosing Preferences. I believe this became available in 2.0.4 or 2.0.5

Change the date format used by NeatWorks

slessard — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:38:35 GMT

I noticed that in version 2.1.1 I can change the date format to something more to my liking. I changed it to display dates in a format similar to 04/01/2009. To do this use this command in Terminal.app

defaults write com.neatreceipts.nrm DateFormat %m/%d/%Y

I only tried this one format, but I suspect the available format options can be found at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TWS/SC32-1275-02/en_US/HTML/msgmst231.htm