Windows Date Locale Test

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Brucey

(Posted 2007) [#1]

Hi folks,

Microsoft's online documentation is just confusing the ..... out of me... I have here a small test that displays a set of localized dates, trying a different locale text for each.

def (en_US)         : 2007-Mar-15
g1  (de-DE)         : 2007-Mar-15
g2  (German-Germany): 2007-Mrz-15
g3  (de_DE)         : 2007-Mar-15
def (en_US)         : 2007-Mar-15

On Linux/Mac you use xx_XX style. According to online MSDN, you can do this too on Windows, but it don't work here. Instead I seem to need to use full text descriptions. I am on Win2k.
I wonder if someone with XP/Vista can run this and see if you get a different answer, for the gx examples.
The file is available from HERE

(Note, there is a delay after it has run - 5 secs - so the window stays up for a bit).

Thanks in advance ;-)

fredborg

(Posted 2007) [#2]

I get the same as above on XP

SebHoll

(Posted 2007) [#3]

For all of the tests on Vista x86, I get 2007-Mar-15 (i.e. I get 2007-Mar-15 for German-Germany, as oppose to 2007-Mrz-15).

Brucey

(Posted 2007) [#4]

That's nice... Vista is totally different... joy...

GfK	(Posted 2007) [#5]

Silly question...

...why don't you just get it to return numeric results and leave it to us to convert them to strings?

Brucey

(Posted 2007) [#6]

It does that anyway... this was meant to be using the OS-specific localised text.
Anyhoo... there's already an option to set your own text for it, if you need to - for months, days etc...

Too much to expect Windows API to be similar each release? :-p