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CiviCRM 5.20.2/WP:

My system is using german locale. The contact import does not offer german date format "dd.mm.yyyy", even it is set for birth class in the date settings (dd.mm.yy).

How can I get german date format dd.mm.yyyy supported in the contact importer?

The contact import page only offers these date formats:

  • yyyy-mm-dd OR yyyymmdd
  • mm/dd/yy OR mm-dd-yy
  • mm/dd/yyyy OR mm-dd-yyyy
  • Month dd, yyyy
  • dd/mm/yy
  • dd/mm/yyyy
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Maybe, the easiest way is, to open the csv in Excel (or LibreCalc) and do some magic with formulas?

Something like

=SUBSTITUTE(C9;".";"/")

Or even much easier: Open the file in Excel (or LibreCalc) and do some search and replace in the column?

That's the way I would do it, if the file isn't to big for Excel and it isn't a work I had to do every day.

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  • I think there is a simpler workaround of just changing the format of the dates to dd/mm/yyyy then saving as csv – Mick Kahn Dec 31 '19 at 10:52

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