topic Re: Date in ISO 8601 format in Mathcad

Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Thu, 03 May 2018 13:35:58 GMT

In Mathcad 4.0 it is not possible to show date in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD), e.g. in the page header.As this is the format we are using in our office, I'd like to add that as a choice.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

LucMeekes — Fri, 26 May 2017 17:48:43 GMT

And even if you choose the 'dd-mm-yyyy' format it shows as dd/mm/yyyy !

Prime still leaves too much to wish for.....

Luc

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:16:34 GMT

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:40:09 GMT

Still not fixed in Mathcad 5.0.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

Werner_E — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:07:05 GMT

@AndreasZieritz wrote:

Still not fixed in Mathcad 5.0.

I am not surprised.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:53:45 GMT

Case 14575068 has been opened.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

LucMeekes — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:48:39 GMT

If that is indicative of the number of open cases for Prime, and it would take PTC on average 1 minute to solve each case (which is very optimistic...) you might need to wait some 27 years for a solution.

Success!
Luc

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

Werner_E — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:09:26 GMT

@LucMeekes wrote:

If that is indicative of the number of open cases for Prime, and it would take PTC on average 1 minute to solve each case (which is very optimistic...) you might need to wait some 27 years for a solution.

That would be about the time when Prime lives up (at least partially) to good old Mathcad 15.

If Mathcad/Prime still exists then.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:05:45 GMT

At least support just called me now, which is a good start.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:15:52 GMT

Just got feedback from support, that they propose that I write the date as a text...

Next question was, if we can consider that case solved.

Aeh.....no, I wouldn't consider that a solution.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

LucMeekes — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:02:30 GMT

I suppose that phone call took more than a minute. ...?
Luc

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 06:35:43 GMT

No, this comment came by mail. So the answer didn't take longer than 10 seconds.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:03:05 GMT

Splendid - case closed.

Must be submitted in community and voted upon.

Hi Andreas,

I would suggest to submit product idea:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS159429

This Case will be closed.

Thanks,

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:07:45 GMT

https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad-Ideas/Date-in-ISO-8601-format/idi-p/573617

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

LucMeekes — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:14:16 GMT

Ah, bad luck:

Product ideas do not apply to Prime 5...

Luc

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:15:59 GMT

And I haven't found out how to vote on any of those things in addition...

What a mess.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

Werner_E — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:47:56 GMT

@AndreasZieritz wrote:

Splendid - case closed.

Must be submitted in community and voted upon.
Hi Andreas,

I would suggest to submit product idea:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS159429

This Case will be closed.

Thanks,

Thats great! Submit a product idea as a support solution! Thats really support made by PTC. The idea you atre supposed to submit would be that PTC fixes a program bug - incredible!

BTW, it seems that since the transition from Jive to Lithium nobody is able to vote for Mathcad ideas ;-(

Not that I would miss this "feature" as those product ideas never made sense anyway and were just a placebo from the very beginning.

I had similar experiences with PTC "support" concerning wrong results from integrals. I was contacted by phone (which was funny) and support was very friendly and polite but completely useless and helpless and seemed not to have much knowledge about what kind of a beast Mathcad is. Needless to say - the case was closed without the slightest hint of a solution in sight.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

Werner_E — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:51:04 GMT

@AndreasZieritz wrote:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad-Ideas/Date-in-ISO-8601-format/idi-p/573617

I would happily vote for that idea (even though I am convinced it won't matter at all) but I am not allowed to do so (even though still under active maintenance).

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

AndreasZieritz — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:37:05 GMT

Same here.

Maybe it's just PTC's implementation of /dev/null.

Re: Date in ISO 8601 format

VladimirN — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:49:06 GMT

I don't see this idea listed here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad-Ideas/idb-p/PTCMathcadIdeas