Date format problem
 

I have a financial application written in Australia for Australian
conditions. It has worked fine under Win 95 & Win 98.
To select a reference date (eg 1 July 2004), you open the calendar to
July 2004 & double click in the box labelled 1.

Under Win XP, this references 7 January 2004. Clearly the system is
getting confused between the dd/mm/yyyy & mm/dd/yyyy formats. But it
has only become a problem with XP. In all other respects the
application seems to work fine.

I'm running the application in Win 95 compatibility mode, but this
hasn't fixed the problem. Is there a setting I can access in Win XP
that will fix this?
Dave Gillingham
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Date format problem
 

Dave,

Open Control Panel, Regional and Language Options.Select "English (United
States)" from the list. This automatically changes the date format to
"M/d/yyyy". UK format uses dd/MM/yyyy

Or, click "Customize" Advanced. Set the date format accordingly.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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I have a financial application written in Australia for Australian
conditions. It has worked fine under Win 95 & Win 98.
To select a reference date (eg 1 July 2004), you open the calendar to
July 2004 & double click in the box labelled 1.

Under Win XP, this references 7 January 2004. Clearly the system is
getting confused between the dd/mm/yyyy & mm/dd/yyyy formats. But it
has only become a problem with XP. In all other respects the
application seems to work fine.

I'm running the application in Win 95 compatibility mode, but this
hasn't fixed the problem. Is there a setting I can access in Win XP
that will fix this?
Dave Gillingham
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To email me remove the .private from my email address.