Problems with dates and autoplace in Trados 2021
Thread poster: Spamalot
Spamalot
Spamalot
Austria
Local time: 21:47
Member (2009)
German to English
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Jan 5, 2021

Hello,
I am having a real problem that is bothering me very much with the dates to be autoplaced in Trados.
There are various date formats in the source (German) for the target (English). The one that is causing trouble (meaning it is not recognized by Trados and I need to type it all the time) is 01. August 2021. It is not placing this. It can place 1 August 2021 and the short dates but simply nothing with a leading zero. :/
I went into language resources for the TM and added
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Hello,
I am having a real problem that is bothering me very much with the dates to be autoplaced in Trados.
There are various date formats in the source (German) for the target (English). The one that is causing trouble (meaning it is not recognized by Trados and I need to type it all the time) is 01. August 2021. It is not placing this. It can place 1 August 2021 and the short dates but simply nothing with a leading zero. :/
I went into language resources for the TM and added this date format even as 01 August 2021 in English, which I personally do not use but it is still not recognizing it. The date format with the leading zero is in the DE format already, so I do not understand what the problem is.
Does anyone know? Many thanks!
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Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd

Local time: 21:47
German to English
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Incorrect date placement Jan 6, 2021

Trados has problems with some date formats. My solution is to write a regex to make the correct conversions or correct the "automated" conversions.

 


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