On 2010 Mar 4, at 11:35, Winfried Huslik wrote:
Richard,
Unfortunately some of the statements are not quite correct.
• Europe: da/mo/yr, such as 01/03/2010 or 1 Mar 2010 or 1 III 2010
must read:
• United Kingdom, France: dd/mm/yyyy, such as 01/03/2010 or 1 Mar 2010
• most rest of Europe: dd.mm.yyyy, such as 01.03.2010 or 1. Mar 2010
Nobody uses roman numerals nowadays except in the Chech Republic.
• ISO: yr/mo/da, such as 2010/03/01 or 2010 Mar 1 or 20100301
must read:
• ISO: yyyy-mm-dd, such as 2010-03-01 or 20100301 (ISO does not use
slashes)
More details are found at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Date_and_time_notation_by_country>
The procedure you describe to change the date format is wrong,
because the locale settings are NOT applied to a file by cloning,
but by OPENING the Clone for the first time. The clone as such does
not contain ANY locale information until it is opened. At that time
(and only then) the locale settings from the computer are set as
the default for the file.
Besides, defined field formats on a layout will not benefit, they
remain as they are.
Winfried
www.fmdiff.com
Beauty! Thanks, Winfried!
I keep hoping the whole world will move to the ISO standard (and the
sooner the better), so we won't have to deal with all these higgledy-
piggledy variations. I'm doing my part. But it's taken us the better
part of a millennium to finally move away from those dratted Roman
numerals. *sigh* Human inertia, as always, remains a major barrier to
progress.
