Date format

OpenEMR Development
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erealgroup wrote on Sunday, February 28, 2010:

We are currently changing the date format to be mm/dd/yyyy in all areas.   Before we make the change is this something that has already been done by someone?  

thanks,

Phillip

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sunsetsystems wrote on Monday, March 01, 2010:

Not a good idea, for a couple of reasons:

1. Most countries other than the U.S. use dd/mm/yyyy format.  OpenEMR has a strong international user base.

2. Most forms that accept dates already handle either mm/dd/yy or yyyy/mm/dd (or dashes instead of slashes) by default, or if $GLOBALS{‘phone_country_code’} is a value other than ‘1’ then dd/mm/yyyy is accepted instead of mm/dd/yyyy.

3. For date display, some places want a long format (e.g. Sunday, February 28, 2010) (which may depend on locale).

Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com

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aperezcrespo wrote on Monday, March 01, 2010:

Hi

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/3442066

Thanks

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jwallace00 wrote on Monday, March 01, 2010:

It’d be really nice if we could have a way to select a system-wide time format.    Then each instance could use the time format they choose.  

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bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, March 02, 2010:

hey,

That project is awaiting a volunteer/contributor:
http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/Active_Projects#Date_formatting
(check out the second message of the sourcforge thread link for a possible plan)

-brady