HOWTO: Changing LOCLAE_IDATE Programmatically

Last reviewed: March 11, 1997
Article ID: Q164946

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) on the following platforms: - Windows 95

SUMMARY

SetLocaleInfo only accepts a sub-set of the locale types constants. SetLocaleInfo does not accept the locale types for dates (LOCALE_IDATE and LOCALE_ILDATE). You can set LOCALE_IDATE (or LOCALE_ILDATE) programmatically by setting LOCALE_SSHORTDATE (for LOCALE_ILDATE, LOCALE_SLONGDATE) appropriately. This will set LOCALE_IDATE automatically to match whatever format string you passed in. For example, if the current LOCALE_SDATE is "/", the current locale_IDATE is "0", and then you se LOCALE_SSHORTDATE to "d/m/yy" using SetLocaleInfo(), LOCALE_IDATE will automatically be set to "1".

Keywords : intlnls kbprg
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: March 11, 1997
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