Date Format

[Guest]

Can anyone help me with the following?

I am living in the UK using Win2k SP4 and therefore my locale is set to
United Kingdom (English) and therefore my short date format should be
dd/MM/yyyy but since using win update, one of the hotfixes has done something
and no matter what I do, I get the short date format as MM/dd/yyyy and no
matter how I change this format, either in Regional Options or manually
configure the regedit to dd/MM/yyyy, upon reboot, it goes back to MM/dd/yyyy
both in Regional options and the regedit sShortdate key. Does anyone know
how to cure this bloody problem?

Thanks
Storm

 

[Keith Langmead]

Check out this link http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=17922. We
had a similar situation with some of our servers a while ago, all
configuration information in the GUI said it was using British English, but
we eventually found that some registry keys were still set to US English. I
did have a better link than the one above, but it seems to be dead now
unfortunately.

Not exactly the same situation as you have, but hopefully it will help.

Keith

 

[Guest]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your input. But that even though that pertained to XP and I have
Win 2000P, there was a section for Win2k but as Win2k runs off win.ini and
does not have a winnt.sif, there was nothing it could do. I have even tried
uninstalling ALL the hotfixes but that didn't work either.

I have noticed however, that what has ever happened to my machine, has
changed the BIOS/CMOS to American date format too. I might as well, reset
the BIOS and do a clean install, and leave the microsoft hotfixes alone.
Microsoft don't help users, they just create extra problems.

Regards,
Storm