modifying date seperators

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Is there a registry edit that I can use to change the regional date seperator
format from / or - or . to none. As an example 05152005. There are some new
standards for check printing that require no seperators for scanning
purposes. I have found the $date setting where it defaults to the seperator
specified in the regoinal settings in the control panel, but leaving it blank
does not change the default.

Thanks
 
Big Guy said:
Is there a registry edit that I can use to change the regional date seperator
format from / or - or . to none. As an example 05152005. There are some new
standards for check printing that require no seperators for scanning
purposes. I have found the $date setting where it defaults to the seperator
specified in the regoinal settings in the control panel, but leaving it blank
does not change the default.

Thanks
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I suspect that the format may be set by the application
you use to print checks. What is it? Did you have a
look at its configuration settings?
 
I am sure that newly written software might be able to solve the problem, but
to use the existing software in the intrem requires a work around for older
software. The regoinal settings would work if I can remove the seperator. It
has to be a registry hack.
Alan MCSE
 
Big said:
Is there a registry edit that I can use to change the regional date seperator
format from / or - or . to none. As an example 05152005. There are some new
standards for check printing that require no seperators for scanning
purposes. I have found the $date setting where it defaults to the seperator
specified in the regoinal settings in the control panel, but leaving it blank
does not change the default.
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Hi,

Put the VBScript below in a .vbs file and run it and see if it helps.

'--------------------8<----------------------
sRegKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\"
oShell.RegWrite sRegKey & "sShortDate", "ddMMyyyy", "REG_SZ"

' You might need to enable the line below as well (by
' removing the ' character)
'oShell.RegWrite sRegKey & "sDate", "", "REG_SZ"

MsgBox "Finished!", vbInformation + vbSystemModal, _
"Date format update"
'--------------------8<----------------------


WSH 5.6 documentation (local help file) can be downloaded from here
if you haven't got it already:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp
 
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