[Solved] Can wine change short date format?

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:03 am

Since I updated to Ubuntu 8.04 yesterday I have lost the UK short date format DDMMYYYY and am having a real problem setting it system wide. (I now have the US MMDDYYYY format.)
Ubuntu 8.04 appears to ignore the LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" line in etc/environment which fixed the issue in 7.10.
The apps I run on wine all use the short date format so here is my question. Is it possible to make wine override the system settings and set its own short date format?

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:39 am

Here's an answer to my own question. I hope it helps others.

I've found a solution that works for me in Quicken and Agent. Some apps take the short date format from ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/win.ini and some take it from ~/.wine/user.reg so it is necessary to amend both.

In user.reg look for sShortDate= under [Control Panel \\ International] and change to sShortDate="dd/MM/yyyy" .

In win.ini look for sShortDate= under [intl] and change to sShortDate="dd/MM/yyyy" .

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:34 am

I spoke too soon. Agent has held the settings but Quicken has now reverted to US short date format. Weird!

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:56 am

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Terryphi <[email protected]> wrote:

I spoke too soon. Agent has held the settings but Quicken has now reverted to US short date format. Weird!

Please file a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:27 am

The setting in user.reg somehow got overwritten. I have reset it to the required format and Quicken now shows UK short date format. (Agent newsreader was already working OK.)

I'll keep an eye on it during the next few days and see how it goes.

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:08 am

Confirmed working OK. Problem solved.

Vito · Post by **Vito** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:49 am

Hi Terryphi,

I'm really really new to this sort of stuff so please excuse my ignorance if I'm doing things wrong.

I'm using codeweavers trial for mac which I think is current as I only downloaded it a week ago for the purpose of running Quicken.

I've been looking for a way to change the date from US style to our ddmmyyyy format as what you were investigating. I followed your steps by finding and changing the parts of user.reg and win.ini and ran Quicken without any change in behavior.

I have rechecked the files and they still have the dd/MM/yyyy

Any suggestions? Is wine easy enough to install by itself if its codeweavers implementation causing problems?

Thanks.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:01 am

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Vito <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm using codeweavers trial for mac [with] Quicken.

Best ask for help at codeweavers.com then.

I've been looking for a way to change the date from US style to our ddmmyyyy format
I followed your steps by finding and changing the parts of user.reg and win.ini
and ran Quicken without any change in behavior.

Which ones? Perhaps you changed Wine's but not Crossover's.
- Dan

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:09 am

Vito,

All I can suggest is that you keep trying. I did a few tests after reading your post and found that Agent (but not Quicken) had reverted to US format. When I checked win.ini I found it had somehow been overwritten with the US format. Don't ask me how! I amended the line in win.ini and everything is fine again.

What we need is a developer to explain why the line gets overwritten.

BTW I am using wine 0.9.59 .

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:42 am

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Terryphi <[email protected]> wrote:

All I can suggest is that you keep trying. I did a few tests after reading your post and found that Agent (but not Quicken) had reverted to US format. When I checked win.ini I found it had somehow been overwritten with the US format. Don't ask me how! I amended the line in win.ini and everything is fine again.

What we need is a developer to explain why the line gets overwritten.

The way to do that is to file a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:06 am

Dan Kegel wrote:On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Terryphi <[email protected]> wrote:
All I can suggest is that you keep trying. I did a few tests after reading your post and found that Agent (but not Quicken) had reverted to US format. When I checked win.ini I found it had somehow been overwritten with the US format. Don't ask me how! I amended the line in win.ini and everything is fine again.

What we need is a developer to explain why the line gets overwritten.
The way to do that is to file a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org

Most likely running wineprefix create since it doesn't check the content of the ini files before overwriting them.

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:30 am

Thanks, vitamin. Is there any workaround or should I report a bug?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:38 am

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Terryphi <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, vitamin. Is there any workaround or should I report a bug?

Please report a bug for this.

bluegroper · Post by **bluegroper** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:05 pm

I've googled and STF'd, but alas cannot find any instructions regarding changing the short date format to dd/mm/yy
Can edit the registry, and change the win.ini file, but my windoze app still displays mm/dd/yy.
Grateful for any pointers to the instructions for how to fix.
TIA's

Edit. Using wine 1.0.1

Terryphi · Post by **Terryphi** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:46 pm

bluegroper: What is the Windows app you are having the problem with? Is your Linux distro set to the right locale for the UK?

Following my instructions above I have correct UK format for Quicken, Agent Newsreader and Digiguide. These are the only Windows apps I use and have tested.

bluegroper · Post by **bluegroper** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:30 am

A custom app written in Delphi.
I'll check with the developer about what registry entry is being used to determine short date format.