Pawel

I used English to Polish to try and repro and using a default TM I get this:

The first segment is exactly what you see.  The reason for this is that that date format is not recognised in English at all so the date is seen as two numbers:

11.02
14

It's then correctly localised as two numbers.  So to tell Studio this is actually a date you need to add this pattern to the language resources like this:

Now we get this... so a bit closer:

You want dd.mm.yyyy.  So, I now delete the date formats in Polish I don't want because there isn't a way to map a specific source to a specific target (as far as I know...  Daniel Brockmann).  I don't know what the least number of dates I'd need to delete to get the match so I simply removed all the dates starting with a year so I now have this:

The result is this:

So, the first one is correct but the second isn't... although it's at least mm.dd.yyyy so we're getting closer.  If I look in the English again I don't have the dd/mm/yy format.  So I add this and I also remove all the dates that also have a slash in them:

Now I have this:

Based on my interpretation of your question this seems to do the trick.

Pawel said:

it's the format Im getting with match repair: yyyy-MM-dd, even though I specified dd.mm.yyyy

So I assumed that you anted dd.mm.yyyy and that the source formats were dd.mm.yy and dd/mm/yy.  Either way I hope this helps you achieve what you want?

I need to understand this a bit better as I don't know what the minimum changes would be to achieve this and I just followed my nose. I'll document the process better when I'm a little more clear myself.

Hello Paul

This date customization feature would be a great update – if only I could make it work. So:

1. I added a custom date format for English source, dd.MM.yyyy

2. Apparently it should now appear in Auto-substitution ( point no 5 here https://docs.sdl.com/813470/875590/trados-studio-2021-sr1/customizing-date-and-time-formats ), but it doesn’t

3. At any rate, the newly added format is not recognized in editor, even after re-indexing the TM and deleting the document and adding it again

I must be doing something wrong?

Thanks, Pavel

Hello Paul

This date customization feature would be a great update – if only I could make it work. So:

1. I added a custom date format for English source, dd.MM.yyyy

2. Apparently it should now appear in Auto-substitution ( point no 5 here https://docs.sdl.com/813470/875590/trados-studio-2021-sr1/customizing-date-and-time-formats ), but it doesn’t

3. At any rate, the newly added format is not recognized in editor, even after re-indexing the TM and deleting the document and adding it again

I must be doing something wrong?

Thanks, Pavel

@Paul?