New in 8.3 - QIF file date formats

Posted on July 12, 2008

When using the export button on the cashbook screen, and choosing to export to a QIF file format, there is now the option to force the date output to be in the Month/Day/Year format.

The problem is that Quick Books itself requires the dates to always be in this format.  Other programs are less restrictive.  However the system is currently outputting the dates based on the computers locality settings.

This issue only applies to people in New Zealand or Australia or other countries that use day/month/year date formats.  If the system detects that your windows locality settings is set up to use month/day/year format already, then it wont show this new option and will always output in month/day/year format, which is what it has been doing previously anyway.

The system will remember your setting for the next time you try to do another export.