Date bug

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In Vista CR1 i get all dates displayed as DD-09-YY (e.g. for september) and
only the middle figures change.

File dates, calendars, datepickers etc all exhibit this and even VB6 and
progs I have written which use dates all fail now because of this.

Anyone else get this and is there a solution?
 
Day month and year (DD-MM-YY) is the correct format at least in Australia it
is
I don't see anything wrong with it
 
The first time I installed vista I accidently left it on US settings and the
date format came up as (MM-DD-YY) and it seemed all wrong to me
 
sorry Will, you mis-understand me.

I mean that the clock for instance in the taskbar says "DD-09-YY" not
"30-09-06" as it should and in explorer all file creation dates show DD for
the date and YY for the year!!! Only the month (09) is correct...
 
Sorry I missunderstood that, So your saying it actually subitutes YY for the
year And DD for the day. If thats correct then you may have a big problem
That would mean the Code that actually gets your system time and date and
displays it to your OS may be corrupted
Just one question Does your system display date and Time stamps correctly ?
(For example if you recieve an Email does it display the date and time it
was recieved correctly ?)
This is definatly an odd problem, One which you could probably spend weeks
figuring out.
To me the most likely cause may be a read error from the disk during
installation for which the quickest solution may be to reinstall
But if you do reinstall I'd recommend that if you still have the orginal Iso
file, That you re-burn it at the slowest possible speed to make sure it's
not in any way coorupted.
 
Just a tip if you do choose to reinstall it may be worth having a look at
your bios settings and make sure "virus protection" is turned off
And also if your bios isn't shadowed it may help if you turn on "shadowing"
 
Thanks Will, yes as you said 2nd last post the dates all literally look as i
said - its nuts!

Whats more, my wife has her own login / desktop and her dates worked (i
noticed just now)...until i ran a VB6 program i wrote and now hers is broken
too. Damned annoying.

Some dates (in web pages etc) show ok but any date supplied by Vista for
anything comes out as a format string and not the correct date....as a
programmer myself it looks like a format string fault if you know what i
mean?? But these progs I have run work fine under XP and Win2K.....
 
It sounds like a compatibility issue with VB6, a system restore should
hopefully fix that

I think Vista is a great home user platform, But as a programming platform
it still has a very long way to go

I think it's probably very brave of you to even try running VB6 on vista

I used to work with "Jbuilder" quite a bit when I did some java programming
and that caused quite a few headaches when I used it on WinXP
I think it will be at least 18 months after vista hits the shelf, Before it
will even be remotely stable enough to run programming apps on.
We'll probably have to wait for Sp1
 
The thing is, this error occurred after running a compiled exe written in vb6
- not the IDE etc so any VB app run on Vista may cause this to happen...

I will try first uninstalling SP6 for vb as this would have overwritten some
dll's etc but surely they would be newer in vista and so should have been
left alone - or are they still using some old files from XP (and were
replaced and now malfunction for the date thing)???

Anyone from MS here who could shed some light on this?
 
Hi,
Have you looked in the Control Panel under "Regional and Language Options"
to see what the date format is set to?
 
I remember way back in the early 70's when I took a class on Mechanical
Drafting that the instructor made it a point that we all had to date our
materials using US Government or Military reckoning. So today would be
printed as either;

30 Sep 06 (or)

30 Sep 2006

I don't know if that has anything to do with it, just my $0.02 worth of
information.

William
 
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