Incorrect date display - Catalina

[czit]

Running Mac mini, 2.3 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16G RAM, Catalina.

Files in column view appear exactly one month earlier than they should. Files created or revised on July 16, appear as June 16 - but with the time of unchanged.

However, Get Info reveals the correct date. See attached screen shot.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Carl

 

[ferrarr]

Did you look in System Preferences > Date & Time?

 

[czit]

Did you look in System Preferences > Date & Time?

Thanks Bob, but Date & Time is set correctly. Everything working properly except date display in column view. This strangeness started a few days ago. All older files display dates correctly. It's just new ones that are exactly 1 month behind.

 

[IWT]

I notice that your files are dated as: Month/Day/Year whereas your "Get Info" gives the date as: Day/Month/Year and this is, you say, the correct one.

I don't know the exact relevance of having the dates shown differently; but I think you should use System Preferences, as member ferrarr (Bob) suggested.

I think that the date structure should be uniform across the computer. This can be changed in Sys Prefs.

Ian

 

[pm-r]

I think that the date structure should be uniform across the computer. This can be changed in Sys Prefs.

I thought the Mac OS did that for a user and set the date and time globally drum set as to one's location unless the time date structure was changed with a custom order, but it should still use that setting globally. At least it does on my old 2011 iMac with Mavericks 10.9.5.


- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

I thought the Mac OS did that for a user and set the date and time globally drum set as to one's location unless the time date structure was changed with a custom order, but it should still use that setting globally. At least it does on my old 2011 iMac with Mavericks 10.9.5.


- Patrick
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Still does, Patrick. At least through Monterey 12.4.

 

[pm-r]

Still does, Patrick. At least through Monterey 12.4.

OK.
So am I misunderstanding something as Ian pointed out to the OP in his post #4 above???

They seem to have two different time/date orders in use.



- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

Could be that the displays have been customized. The options in System Preferences/Language & Ration/Advanced allow you to change the order by dragging and dropping the components. Here is a screenshot of the Advanced options. Note the "Type text and drag date elements to create a custom format":


But even if the order is changed, the actual date data should be the same.

 

[IWT]

But even if the order is changed, the actual date data should be the same.

I agree.... and yet....... they are not the same.

I openly admit that my observation of the difference in the month/day order merely caused me to speculate. Why different sequence and why one date is correct and the other wrong?

Is this a red herring or does this point to a possible solution?

Supposing the OP changed the month/day sequence so that both are the same ie Day/Month/Year as in "Get Info"???

Ian

 

[MacInWin]

Well, the OP could probably do that. The format in Get Info seems to be the one labelled "Full" in the screenshot I posted, but Get Info in my system, which uses defaults, uses the "Long" format, that is, the day of the week isn't listed. I also note there is no space or punctuation between the day of the week and the date of the month. In other words, it says "Saturday16" instead of "Saturday, 16" as I think it should if it was still the default. From that, it appears that something is tinkering with the system settings, which is something either the OP isn't telling us or something sinister.

@czit do you have an "tweaks" to the system, or any "helpers" or "cleaners" installed? Any "utilities" that didn't come from Apple?

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Could be that the displays have been customized. The options in System Preferences/Language & Ration/Advanced allow you to change the order by dragging and dropping the components. Here is a screenshot of the Advanced options. Note the "Type text and drag date elements to create a custom format":

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But even if the order is changed, the actual date data should be the same.

Huh. If I had to guess.... I think the OP clearly customized the date display given how it has the day of the week (Saturday) followed immediately by the day. No space or other separator. So he must have customized this. Given that, rather than having the month field filled in that changes as the month does, he simply free-texted "June" in its place. See my example here.

 

[pm-r]

I think the OP clearly customized the date display given how it has the day of the week (Saturday) followed immediately by the day. No space or other separator. So he must have customized this.

Here is how a "get info" dates displays on my iMac which I am pretty sure are the default settings:



- Patrick
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