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SOLVED: Showing year in list view
« on: February 09, 2011, 09:23:16 PM »
I'm sure this must be simple, but I can't seem to find the answer. Instead I'm  wallbash.gif .

When I've opened a folder and am using list view, I see: day of wk, month, date, and time -- but not the year. Same goes for the "get info" window. See uploaded pics.

I'd like to know the YEAR, but I have no idea what pref to set to make this magically happen. Does anyone here know the answer?


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Edited to add: see my last post for the solution, thanx.gif to Paddy!
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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2011, 12:36:57 AM »
Have you done any customizing in your International prefs pane?  

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Do you have some third party app that can adjust dates...  Thinking.gif
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SOLVED: Showing year in list view
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2011, 10:56:21 AM »
In Snow Leopard (and 'regular' Leopard?) the formatting is in the Language & Text" pref panel. And it definitely looks like someone has been 'adjusting' those prefs; there is no space between the Day and Month, as well as no Year. "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" nono.gif
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Language & Text Preference Panel
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Customize Date format

Of course, if you had followed my advice, you would never use List View, anyway... scram.gif
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 08:15:09 PM »
QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 9 2011, 10:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Have you done any customizing in your International prefs pane?

Yes, I had and undid it all and still no year in list view.

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Do you have some third party app that can adjust dates...  Thinking.gif

MenuCalendarClockiCal? Went in and changed that to match the new settings in International and now it sort of works. Here's what I have:

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Date created is perfect. Date modified isn't and it duplicates?

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Feb 10 2011, 08:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
In Snow Leopard (and 'regular' Leopard?)...

Lions, and leopards, and bears! Oh, my! tease.gif

I run 10.5.latestversion and have no clue what animal it is wink.gif -- but I don't find a "Language & Text" pref panel.
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 10:19:52 PM »
10.5 is Tiger and the formatting is where Kriss said it is.

Do all your friends have numbers instead of names or just your OS's?! tongue.gif I find it next to impossible to keep up with the often changing version numbers...they all start with "OS X 10." doh.gif So that's five wasted/redundant characters. (Not to mention the confusion of the Roman Numeral "X" which caused a lot of stuttering when the whole OS first came out: "OS Ten 10?!") Then comes the major version number (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. and those equal the cats: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) and the last sub-version can change each month! wacko.gif No need to use those unless there is a problem directly concerning a particular version, in my humble opinion. And, besides, just do things my way and I'll be much happier. laughhard.gif

Why don't you like cats?! rant.gif If they're good enough for Steve,... inspect.gif
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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 12:27:56 AM »
Actually, Jim 10.5 is Leopard – Tiger is 10.4 (still running that on the G5 iMac).
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SOLVED: Showing year in list view
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 09:05:29 AM »
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Actually, Jim 10.5 is Leopard – Tiger is 10.4
Sekon isztaik thise yeer!! eek2.gif

See what I mean!? Who can keep up with translations! Further proof that "Admin2" who has posted 5,412 times since 2-April 02, should just use the cat names!!! rant.gif
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« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 10:35:07 PM »
Create a new user and see if it still happens.  If so, it may be a pref.

Move the /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist (invisible) and the com.apple.systempreferences.plist (in user library) to another location, log out/in or relaunch Finder and see if it shows OK in your regular account.
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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2011, 04:12:08 AM »
QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 11 2011, 08:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Create a new user and see if it still happens.  If so, it may be a pref.


Done and the problem seems to be gone. Now to figure out which pref.

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Move the /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist (invisible) and the com.apple.systempreferences.plist (in user library) to another location, log out/in or relaunch Finder and see if it shows OK in your regular account.

Dumped both of those and nothing changed.
Restarted without running MenuCalendarClock, no change.
This is gonna be a long, slow process.
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SOLVED: Showing year in list view
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2011, 09:35:40 AM »
Kimmer, try the suggestions here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3579?viewlocale=en_US

At least that SHOULD set it back to the defaults and you can go from there. Maybe. Worth a try, anyway.
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« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2011, 12:23:32 PM »
Thanks, Paddy. I'll give it a whirl.
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SOLVED: Showing year in list view
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2011, 03:48:01 PM »
QUOTE("Apple Support page linked above")
Date and time formats are user account-specific, so one user account may see the correct date modified on a file, for example, while another user on the same computer may see an incorrect date modified on the same file.
That means, in me, that you should move those plist's while you are logged in to the account that has the problem. And I'm not sure you'll see the changes until you Restart/Quit & reopen/launch the app with the problem. I don't think anything reads its prefs except on Startup/Launch. dntknw.gif
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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2011, 12:40:47 AM »
QUOTE(Paddy @ Feb 12 2011, 07:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Kimmer, try the suggestions here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3579?viewlocale=en_US

At least that SHOULD set it back to the defaults and you can go from there. Maybe. Worth a try, anyway.

Okay, that worked! I changed my region to US (instead of Custom) and now all works fine. I'm not gonna customize it. I can live with the default rather than that screwed up mess I had before.

Paddy, thanx.gif  for searching this out and finding the answer.
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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2011, 02:57:43 AM »
QUOTE(kimmer @ Feb 10 2011, 09:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 9 2011, 10:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Have you done any customizing in your International prefs pane?

Yes, I had and undid it all and still no year in list view.




Must have missed one bit of customization.  wink.gif  

Now why didn't removing those prefs work since the location is one of the things covered by them?  Thinking.gif
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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2011, 04:18:14 AM »
QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 13 2011, 12:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now why didn't removing those prefs work since the location is one of the things covered by them?  Thinking.gif

Not sure. It's all a mystery to me.
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