Feature request: Custom date format

• Jan 19, 2022 - 03:09
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

I would like to reformat my Creation Date and Today's Date. The default is set to American format which is month/day/year. But I would like to have the date format as year/month/date. Having the year first makes organizing much easier. I do not seem to have a way to change the format except by changing my country.

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Elk River Blues Fiddle MuseScore.mscz 15.75 KB

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• Jan 19, 2022 - 07:14

My creation date seems to default to YYYY-MM-D. When I open your score and check the Properties it says the creation date is 2022-01-17. I can't find Today's Date as a score property.

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• Jan 19, 2022 - 07:16

Creation date in File > Score properties, and as such in Header/Footer via the tag $:creationDate: is always created in ISO format YYYY-MM-DD on score creation, no way to change this behavoir.
If you want to change that, modify that filed in File > Score properties.

That much is by design and unlikely to change.

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• Jan 19, 2022 - 07:24

Creation date, today's date and modification date are available in header/footer as $D, $d and $M respectivly and are always in the format matching your current locale/language.
Your sample score uses none of them (I'd use $M for the revision date, in header/footer rather than in the title frame, where these marcos don't work))

Having an influence on the format of these is a request that had come up before and a valid one at that.

See also #278255: the special symbols $m/$M/$d/$D ignoring the settings of the regional format in ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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• Mar 16, 2022 - 22:52

Edit > preferences > Language- choosing language updates the date format for me.
While I do not speak it:
Svenska 2022-03-16 18:46 *** iso 8601 date format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM

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