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- From: nike!oliveb!3comvax!marcl (Marc Lavine at 3Com Corporation)
- Organization: 3Com Corp., Santa Clara, CA
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 86 21:34:05 PST
-
- In article <6109@ut-sally.UUCP> you write:
- >From: seismo!mcvax!guido (Guido van Rossum)
- >(BTW, I think Apple has also designed decent solutions to other
- >internationalization issues -- their date and time notation, and probably
- >that for currency also, can be adapted to any of the European countries
- >in which they sell computers!)
-
- In case you weren't aware, PC-DOS also has a mechanism for changing
- the date and time display formats based on what country you are in.
- You can set the country by using a statement such as country = 031
- (for the Netherlands) in the config.sys file. DOS will use this
- information when displaying dates and times (such as in directory
- listings) and it is also available to application programs that want
- to use it. This has better support in DOS versions 3.0 and later than
- in DOS 2.1.
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- Marc Lavine
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 14
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