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Restting the Date in IIS to be the same as the system regional setting

Asked by: souldj

I am running windows XP with IIS 5.1 - When I use the VB Script command "DATE()" , I get the date in American Formate - Month - Day- Year ; The problem is the system Regional settings are all UK English - Day - Month - Year.

Due to this problem, coding for calendar scripts is so hard. Please could somebody assist in hellping me learn to change the IIS setting to mirro the Regional settings on my system.

Thank you.

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2003-10-08 at 03:09:02ID20760391
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Answers

 

by: daniel_cPosted on 2003-10-08 at 11:53:27ID: 9515418

You have to use LCID to make it dateformat works as you want.
For more reference, go to this url:
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2260

 

by: fz2hqsPosted on 2003-10-09 at 08:44:11ID: 9521530

As the Sys Admin Have a look in the Regional and  Language Options in control panel check it is all UK

This should also fix it if you put in in a .reg file and import it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International]
"iCountry"="44"
"iCurrDigits"="2"
"iCurrency"="0"
"iDate"="1"
"iDigits"="2"
"iLZero"="1"
"iMeasure"="0"
"iNegCurr"="1"
"iTime"="1"
"iTLZero"="1"
"Locale"="00000809"
"s1159"="AM"
"s2359"="PM"
"sCountry"="United Kingdom"
"sCurrency"="£"
"sDate"="/"
"sDecimal"="."
"sLanguage"="ENG"
"sList"=","
"sLongDate"="dd MMMM yyyy"
"sShortDate"="dd/MM/yyyy"
"sThousand"=","
"sTime"=":"
"sTimeFormat"="HH:mm:ss"
"iTimePrefix"="0"
"sMonDecimalSep"="."
"sMonThousandSep"=","
"iNegNumber"="1"
"sNativeDigits"="0123456789"
"NumShape"="1"
"iCalendarType"="1"
"iFirstDayOfWeek"="0"
"iFirstWeekOfYear"="0"
"sGrouping"="3;0"
"sMonGrouping"="3;0"
"sPositiveSign"=""
"sNegativeSign"="-"

Note: Playing with the registry is dangerous and you should always wear protective clothing etc etc this will be okay though ;)

 

by: ajwnetPosted on 2003-11-26 at 14:09:01ID: 9828149

Spot o, just two things to add :
- IIS will use the default regional settings OR those of whoever is logged in.
- Every individual account on the server retains its own regional settings :
American (US) is MMDDYY, European is DDMMYY.. hence the reversed date/month.

I offer you a choice of two solutions :

The bulletproof solution (my preference) is to re-write your ASP code in a way that the date format is irrelevant - e.g. split the now() or date() into separate day/month/year/hour/minute variables, or you force the date format using VB formatting functions (see w3schools.com for an excellent reference guide)

The non-bulletproof solution may be quicker and avoids having to rewrite lots of your pages - look at the regional settings when you are logged in, check they are OK. Then log in as administrator and either (carefully) remove all other accounts or (even more carefully!) use regedit (as daniel_c suggested above) to duplicate your regional settings to all other accounts. Annoyingly, if someone else logs in and changes their regional settings, IIS will substitute their settings for yours whilst they are logged in, the reason why this is not bulletproof.

Good luck #;o)

 

by: andreshmPosted on 2004-02-29 at 21:58:57ID: 10484110

Just use this funtion and forget server/ configuration issues.

<%
Function fmtDateTime(byval d, byval pat)
    Dim Tokens, token, delim, i, date_part, time_part, DateTokens, TimeTokens
 If IsNull(d) Then
        fmtDateTime = ""
        Exit Function
    End If
If TypeName(d) <> "Date" Or Not IsDate(d) Then
        fmtDateTime = "Invalid date parameter."
        Exit Function
    End If
    If InStr(pat, " ") > 0 Then
        Tokens = Split(pat, " ") ' should be 2 tokens --> (0)date (1)time
    Else
        Tokens = Split(pat, "") ' date OR time formatting
    End If
    bIsDate = False : bIsTime = False
     For Each token In Tokens
        If InStr(token, "-") > 0 Or InStr(token, "/") > 0 Then
           If InStr(token, "-") Then
                delim = "-"
            ElseIf InStr(token, "/") Then
                delim = "/"
            End If
DateTokens = Split(token, delim)
      For i = 0 To UBound(DateTokens)
                 Select Case CStr(DateTokens(i))
                    Case "yy"
                        DateTokens(i) = Right(CStr(DatePart("yyyy", d)), 2)
                    Case "yyyy"
                        DateTokens(i) = CStr(DatePart("yyyy", d))
                    Case "m"
                        DateTokens(i) = CStr(DatePart("m", d))
                    Case "mm"
                        DateTokens(i) = ZeroPad(CStr(DatePart("m", d)),2)
                    Case "d"
                        DateTokens(i) = CStr(DatePart("d", d))
                    Case "dd"
                        DateTokens(i) = ZeroPad(CStr(DatePart("d", d)),2)
                    Case Else
                        fmtDateTime = "Invalid date format : " & token
                        Exit Function
                End Select
            Next
            date_part = Join(DateTokens, delim)
        End If
          If InStr(token, ":") > 0 Then
           TimeTokens = Split(token, ":")
            For i = 0 To UBound(TimeTokens)
                Select Case CStr(TimeTokens(i))
                    Case "h"
                        TimeTokens(i) = Right(CStr(DatePart("h", d)), 2)
                    Case "hh"
                        TimeTokens(i) = ZeroPad(CStr(DatePart("h", d)),2)
                    Case "m", "mm"  ' always zero-pad minutes
                        TimeTokens(i) = ZeroPad(CStr(DatePart("n", d)),2)
                    Case "s", "ss"  ' always zero-pad seconds
                        TimeTokens(i) = ZeroPad(CStr(DatePart("s", d)),2)
                    Case Else
                        fmtDateTime = "Invalid time format : " & token
                        Exit Function
                End Select
            Next
            time_part = Join(TimeTokens, ":")
        End If
    Next  
    fmtDateTime =  Trim(date_part & " " & time_part)
End Function
Function ZeroPad(byval str, byval iSize)
    ZeroPad = String((iSize - Len(str)), "0") & Trim(str)
End Function
%>

use:

fmtDateTime(Now(), "yyyy-mm-dd")

fmtDateTime(Now(), "mm/dd/yyyy")

fmtDateTime(Now(), "hh:mm:ss")



just change the order YYYY mm dd  as pleased

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