Date format conversion

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hi,

I am facing one problem in Microsoft excel sheet, The problem occurs only when i change my computers region & Language format as "Danish(Denmark)" Control Panel->Region&Language->Format->(select Danish(Denmark))

After changing region & language format,

1)open Microsoft excel workbook sheet,
2)select anyone column and right click and select Format Cells,
3)here choose Date option with type as (14-03-2001) which was placed under Number tab.
4)then click ok.

now enter the value "10-Mar-2014", it will be converted into 10.03.2014.
but its not converting for MAY and OCT months.

can anyone tell the reason for why this is not happening for MAY & OCT months?

Posted 24-Nov-14 4:44am

SPASWIN

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~~Looks like a bug, report it to Microsoft.~~

Posted 24-Nov-14 4:59am

Richard MacCutchan

Updated 24-Nov-14 5:53am

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Richard Deeming 24-Nov-14 11:47am

I don't think it's a bug that a system set to Danish won't recognise a date using an English month name. :)

Richard MacCutchan 24-Nov-14 11:52am

Good point.

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-24T05:45:00

The date format will use the abbreviated month names for the selected culture. Looking at the Danish month names, it would seem that the abbreviation for every month except May and October is the same as the English equivalent:

January -> Januar (JAN)
February -> Februar (FEB)
March -> Marts (MAR)
April -> April (APR)
May -> Maj (MAY / MAJ)
June -> Juni (JUN)
July -> Juli (JUL)
August -> August (AUG)
September -> September (SEP)
October -> Oktober (OCT / OKT)
November -> November (NOV)
December -> December (DEC)

Try using the correct abbreviated month names for the language:

10-Maj-2014 -> 10.05.2014
10-Okt-2014 -> 10.10.2014