Sonoma Calendar date format

Just upgraded to Sonoma (14.0) and Calendar is no longer respecting my system date format setting.

My system date format setting is YYYY-MM-DD, which Calendar previously respected. But it's now, when I press Shift-Command-T ('Go to date') it wants MM/DD/YYYY. I'm guessing it's getting the latter format from my region (Canada). But it should respect the date format.

Other apps (e.g. Mail) are respecting the system date format setting. have no individual application setting for Calendar.

Fix?

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 6:06 AM

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Quzi

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Posted on Oct 17, 2023 4:18 AM

I think I have a relatively good workaround now. Go to System Settings > General > Language & Region, and set the following:

Preferred Languages: English (Canada) - Primary

Region: Paraguay

Date format: 2023-08-19

It' important that the Preferred Language is English (Canada) and not just English because this changes the date format to YYYY-MM-DD on many websites, including icloud.com > Calendar.

Another tidbit is that if you have an Apple Numbers document containing cells that have the Data Format: Currency with Currency: Canadian Dollar, and you want to display those cells as $123 and not CA$123, you have to go to Numbers > File > Advanced > Language & Region... and change the Language from System - English to English and the Region from Paraguay to Canada.

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