Regional and Language Settings

[Simon Minder]

Hi all,

We are a company based in Switzerland, which has obviously the standards and
formats set to "German (Switzerland)" in the Regional Options in the
"Regional and Lanaguage Options" in the "Control Panel".

However, I have a couple of users who run software which should report the
dates (e.g. March) in English and not in German (März = March).

I am aware, that I could change the standards and formats to "English
(United States)". However, this has a negative effect in Excel, on the
currency and dates in other applications.

Does anybody know a workaround that the dates are displayed in English (e.
g. March) and not in German?

Kind regards,

Simon

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

See below.

Hi all,

We are a company based in Switzerland, which has obviously the standards
and
formats set to "German (Switzerland)" in the Regional Options in the
"Regional and Lanaguage Options" in the "Control Panel".

*** Not so obvious - it could be set to French (Switzerland) or to
*** Italian (Switzerland).

However, I have a couple of users who run software which should report the
dates (e.g. March) in English and not in German (März = March).

I am aware, that I could change the standards and formats to "English
(United States)". However, this has a negative effect in Excel, on the
currency and dates in other applications.

Does anybody know a workaround that the dates are displayed in English (e.
g. March) and not in German?

*** Your two requirements appear mutually contradictory. In one
*** application you expect the month to appear as March and in the
*** other as März, even though both applications obtain the month
*** code from the operating system.
***
*** You might be able to resolve the issue by creating a different user
*** whose country code is set to US English. Maybe if the user runs
*** the problem application under that second account, using the "run as"
*** facility, then it would adopt the desired setting. Just an idea - I
haven't
*** tested it. It this does not work then perhaps the boys in the Excel
*** newsgroup have some suggestion for you.