Birthdays and Such is a shareware application designed for use around the world.
Birthdays and Such users span the globe from Australia, New Zealand and Japan to Holland, France, Britain, Austria, Germany and Israel, in addition to the United States, Canada and South America.
While the sample Reminders file and manuals are in English (sorry), dates are local—you enter each reminder date in the form that is native to the language and region of the system software you are using.
So in the U.S., the most common valid date formats are:
September 20
Sept 20
Sept. 20
9/20
These are the formats used in the sample Reminders file that comes with Birthdays and Such. If you’re using an international system that expects another format, switch the dates to that format and Birthdays and Such will be happy.
European French systems, for example, would probably expect (try it and let me know):
20 septembre
20 sept
20 sept.
20.9
I can’t test how well this works in other regions, but since that’s the point of the routines, I would expect them to be intuitive to your language and region.
If the first time you run Birthdays and Such, it complains about the dates in the sample Reminders file, just open the file and change the dates to your country's standard—and voilà, the program will work!
Shareware fees: Non-U.S. checks cost more to cash in the U.S. than the amount you write it for. Instead, send U.S. dollar bills. Or visit your local friendly post office and ask to buy an international postal money order in U.S. dollars.
There’s more about using international dates in Chapter 3 of the Birthdays and Such manual, and on the Birthdays and Such web site at http://members.aol.com/RonLichty/Birthdays .
