How do I change the date format in a label?

Question

I have fed a spreadsheet of data into yEd which includes a column for date.  I have the date format in the spreadsheet set to mm/dd/yy .  But the label in yEd insists on displaying the date as  "Fri May 22 00:00:00 2015"  (example).  Is there a global way of setting the preferences for that?

Answer 1

Indeed, the Excel import code does not check the actual date format. It just converts any date in the default way into text. We'll try to improve this in a future release of yEd. I cannot make any promises, but I guess that the third-party software library that we use to parse the Excel file will provide the formated date as well.

Thanks for pointing out that issue.

Answer 2

As of version 3.14.3, yEd takes the spreadsheet's date format settings into account.

Answer 3

I think the format should be done on Excel(?)

Comments

Thanks for the response.  As I mentioned in my original post, I did set the date format to mm/dd/yy.  But that format is ignored in yEd.  I suspect there is no provision for changing date format.  Thanks for the response.