Re: Getting at the "default Windows short date"

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Simon Taylor wrote:

>I've had some great success with wine recently, but am a little unsure about  
>the best way to attack this problem.
>
>I want to run an accounting program called Cash Flow Manager under wine.
>(As it happens, this program is our last dependency on Windows apps in our 
>office, everything else is OpenOfifce.org and RH Linux).
>
>When I run the application:
>
>    wine /c/Program\ Files/CashflowGST/CASHFLOWGST.exe
>
>I get a popup window with:
>
>    Cashflow Manager requires the default Windows short date 
>    format for your selected language.
>    Your currently selected short date format does not match the
>    Windows default. You will need to
>    select the default Windows Short Date format before
>    proceeding.
>
>On the Windows 2000 machine, the so called short date in
>"Settings/Control Panel/Regional Options/Date", is:
>
>    d/MM/yyyy
>
 try dd/MM/yyyy first. If that doesn't work, there may be some problems 
with how dates are dealt with that is addressed with by this patch. 
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0079.html

>
>and I suspect that I need to make this same entry in my wine environment, 
>(perhaps in system.reg?), but where do I start? 
>
>Any pointers gratefully received.
>
>Regards,
>
>Simon Taylor
>  
>
If none of this works you can submitt a bug report to http://bugs/winehq.org


Tony Lambregts


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