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- Changing the RiscOS 3 Filer Date Presentation
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-
- by James Miller
-
- The ISO-8601 standard describes the recommended format for presentation of
- dates and times. There are minor variants, but typically it is like:
-
- 1997-Dec-19 13:20:52
-
- where all the elements are arranged in descending order of significance.
-
- The RiscOS 3 filer defaults to "13:20:52 19 Dec 1997" which you may prefer to
- modify. The supplied patch lets you do this; the format chosen is as above.
-
- How?
- ----
- The system variable Filer$Path is changed to include a pointer to the patch
- directory, where a copy of the Filer's window templates is stored. Icon #1
- contains the date format, which may be altered as desired by hand or with a
- template editor. The limit is 31 bytes.
-
- This information applies to RiscOS 3 onwards.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- What to do
- ----------
- RiscPC:
- The patch directory "FilerDate" should be placed inside the directory
- Boot$ToBeLoaded which is usually $.!Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk
-
- A3000,A3010,A400,A5000 etc:
- On machines not using the universal boot system (usually pre-RiscPC), you
- should put the directory "FilerDate" somewhere convenient, and include a
- line in the file $.!Boot that reads something like:
-
- Run $.where.you.put.it.FilerDate
-
- If you do not have a $.!Boot obey file in the root directory, then you must
- create it, and then from the command line enter *OPT 4,2
-
- Result
- ------
- After the next re-boot, dates will appear in Filer windows in the ISO-8601
- recommended format.
-
-
- Mailto:james@jrmiller.demon.co.uk
- This file is at: http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/rpc/date.zip
-
- Notes compiled 1997 Dec 20 [Sat] 1307 utc
- <end>
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