Problem with long month and day names

[Sami Torvinen]

I'm installing a laptop for an user. The user is from Germany, but he wants
to use english XP Pro.

Now, this guy lives and works in Finland so I have to make date, time and
currency show in the finnish way. OK, I go to regional settings and change
everything to use finnish settings. But now the month and day names are in
finnish too, and this guy really doesnt know what "elokuu" means (I doubt
you do either). How can I change day and month names to english but still
use finnish formatting for everything else?

Sami Torvinen

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I'm installing a laptop for an user. The user is from Germany,
but he wants to use english XP Pro.

Now, this guy lives and works in Finland so I have to make
date, time and currency show in the finnish way. OK, I go to
regional settings and change everything to use finnish settings.
But now the month and day names are in finnish too, and this guy
really doesnt know what "elokuu" means (I doubt you do either).
How can I change day and month names to english but still use
finnish formatting for everything else?

Hi,

See if this works for you/him:

1.
Below is listed the content of a registry file that contains most
regional settings for Finland. Put it into a .reg file.

2.
Set the regional settings to English using the "Regional and
Language Options" applet in Control Panel.

3.
Then import the registry file by double-clicking on it in Explorer.

4.
Log out and on again.


Registry file content:

--------------------8<----------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International]
"iCurrDigits"="2"
"iCurrency"="3"
"iDate"="1"
"iDigits"="2"
"iLZero"="1"
"iMeasure"="0"
"iNegCurr"="8"
"iTime"="1"
"iTLZero"="0"
"s1159"=""
"s2359"=""
"sCurrency"="€"
"sDate"="."
"sDecimal"=","
"sList"=";"
"sLongDate"="d. MMMM yyyy"
"sShortDate"="d.M.yyyy"
"sThousand"=" "
"sTime"=":"
"sTimeFormat"="H:mm:ss"
"iTimePrefix"="0"
"sMonDecimalSep"=","
"sMonThousandSep"=" "
"iNegNumber"="1"
"sNativeDigits"="0123456789"
"NumShape"="1"
"iCalendarType"="1"
"iFirstDayOfWeek"="0"
"iFirstWeekOfYear"="2"
"sGrouping"="3;0"
"sMonGrouping"="3;0"
"sPositiveSign"=""
"sNegativeSign"="-"

--------------------8<----------------------
(be sure to have a blank line at the end of the registry file)

 

[Sami Torvinen]

Ah, yes, this is working. Thank you!

Sami

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi,


Great, and thanks for the feedback

Regards,
Torgeir

Ah, yes, this is working. Thank you!

Sami

1.
Below is listed the content of a registry file that contains most
regional settings for Finland. Put it into a .reg file.

2.
Set the regional settings to English using the "Regional and
Language Options" applet in Control Panel.

3.
Then import the registry file by double-clicking on it in Explorer.

4.
Log out and on again.


Registry file content:

--------------------8<----------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International]
"iCurrDigits"="2"
"iCurrency"="3"
"iDate"="1"
"iDigits"="2"
"iLZero"="1"
"iMeasure"="0"
"iNegCurr"="8"
"iTime"="1"
"iTLZero"="0"
"s1159"=""
"s2359"=""
"sCurrency"="€"
"sDate"="."
"sDecimal"=","
"sList"=";"
"sLongDate"="d. MMMM yyyy"
"sShortDate"="d.M.yyyy"
"sThousand"=" "
"sTime"=":"
"sTimeFormat"="H:mm:ss"
"iTimePrefix"="0"
"sMonDecimalSep"=","
"sMonThousandSep"=" "
"iNegNumber"="1"
"sNativeDigits"="0123456789"
"NumShape"="1"
"iCalendarType"="1"
"iFirstDayOfWeek"="0"
"iFirstWeekOfYear"="2"
"sGrouping"="3;0"
"sMonGrouping"="3;0"
"sPositiveSign"=""
"sNegativeSign"="-"

--------------------8<----------------------
(be sure to have a blank line at the end of the registry file)