Hi all,

DBISAM v4, D6,  XP

My app works very nicely on my XP development machine (and a couple
other machines) with the date setting of dd/mm/yy in the Control Panel
| Regional....

I wanted to test it with Vista. I loaded a VMware clean Vista install,
and my app, and now its broke  

It does not like the default setting of M/d/yyyy that Vista gives it
(I remember now I had to change this date setting on new XP installs
also).

So the obvious question is HOW do I develope my app to factor in the
various flavours of the date settings that users have? Do I use the
ANSI something for every occurance of the DATE in my application?

Regards,
Pat

Pat


Why not just set ShortDateFormat and LongDateFormat?

Roy Lambert [Team Elevate]

Pat


Just seen your post on the CodeGear forums and it adds an extra dimension. My answer was purely for display purposes. For database if using sql I'd follow the suggestion on using parameters or, as with filters, use the built in functions in the engine eg AnsiDateToStr , AnsiDateTimeToStr etc

Roy Lambert [Team Elevate]

Hi Roy,

>For database if using sql I'd follow the suggestion on using parameters or, as with filters, use the built in functions in the engine eg AnsiDateToStr , AnsiDateTimeToStr etc

Thanks for that Roy

>Just seen your post on the CodeGear forums

Yeah, first time I visited there for about 6 months. I pointed my
newsreader (Agent) to  forums.borland.com  as usual but it could not
connect. I did some scratching around and found
https://forums.codegear.com/category.jspa?categoryID=15

Roy do you know what the replacement for "forums.borland.com" is? I
would like to use Agent instead of the web browser.

Pat

>Roy do you know what the replacement for "forums.borland.com" is? I
>would like to use Agent instead of the web browser.

Cancel that  I just tried  forums.codegear.com  again & I got all
the goodies. I tried that addy earlier and only got DelphiPrism
newsgroups, ah well, not to worry.

Pat,

<< I wanted to test it with Vista. I loaded a VMware clean Vista install,
and my app, and now its broke  >>

What part is broken ?  DBISAM 4.x uses ANSI date/time formatting for
everything, so it will be unaffected by changes in the OS regional settings.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Hi Tim,

><< I wanted to test it with Vista. I loaded a VMware clean Vista install,
>and my app, and now its broke  >>
>
>What part is broken ?  DBISAM 4.x uses ANSI date/time formatting for
>everything, so it will be unaffected by changes in the OS regional settings.

It looks like I (as the user) was breaking it. In the reports I was
keying in DATE criteria in dd/mm/yy format and not respecting the
operating system's M/d/yyyy format. If I keyin M/d/yyyy format my
report works OK.

I guess I hit the panic button when Vista took me out of my comfort
zone (at least I learned a bit more in troubleshooting).

Pat