Calendar app confused about date format.

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Calendar app confused about date format.

I recently received an email from a European carrier that contained the date 06.07.2023, i.e., the sixth of July, 2023, and generally understood everywhere except the USA. However, even though my Language & Region settings are for dd/mm/yyyy format, this event was automatically entered in my Calendar as the 7th of June. It's seems not smart enough to recognize that replacing slashes with dots does not make the date format revert to the American default.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.6

Posted on May 29, 2023 10:49 AM

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Answer 1

ShannonM1

Community Specialist

May 30, 2023 1:52 PM in response to Mikelis Bickis

Hello Mikelis Bickis,

To confirm, is the region for your Mac as a whole set for the US or for a different country? The steps on how to confirm that can be found at Change how dates, times, and more display on Mac - Apple Support. We just want to be sure that the over all region of your computer is set for a country that uses the Date/Month/Year format as opposed to Month/Date/Year, as that will control default behaviors.

Cheers!

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Answer 2

DerekM87

Community Specialist

May 30, 2023 3:29 PM in response to Mikelis Bickis

Mikelis Bickis,

Thanks for clarifying further. Given your settings, we'd advise following up with Apple Support directly from here for closer inspection.

See contact options at the link below:

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Take care.

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Answer 3

May 30, 2023 3:14 PM in response to ShannonM1

The region is set to "Canada" which ought to give dd/mm/yyyy for the date format, but to be honest, usage in Canada is inconsistent, largely due to people using the US defaults on their computers, at least by English-speaking Canadians. Government of Canada standard is yyyy/mm/dd, however this is not widely used outside official documents, and dd/mm/yyyy is typical in French Canada as well as Europe. Thus I modified the Canadian date format to dd/mm/yyyy.

At any rate, 06.07.2023 should not be interpreted as 7th of June. Since it does not conform to the default Canadian standard, it ought to accept my custom standard, rather than revert to the US default. The choice of separators ought not confuse it.

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Calendar app confused about date format.

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