Script to Change Format

Just a comment - as opposed to a solution.
Seems doing so could really piss off a user(s) who wants that Format.

Instead, why not hard code the format you want to display in a Control's Format property and/or in code.  This will override the Windows whatever format.

This is what I do ... as I prefer mm-dd-yyyy

mx

pissing off the user would be a bonus :)

the application is huge, and dates are used in literaly 100s of places, so my solution above is most economical.

<the application is huge, and dates are used in literaly 100s of places, so my solution above is most economical. >
By "100s of places", ...do you mean geographic locations?
(different countries)
Because changing this for all computers in all countries may cause problems...
There may be some utilities installed on some machines that need a different date setting...

Is there a specific issue you are having...?
Like MX, I am just a bit wary of just blowing though and making this change for all computers...
...When a change to the date format in Access may be all that is really needed...


In any event, a link to investigate:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Excel-1059/2010/9/change-Regional-Setting-short.htm

JeffCoachman

Because changing this for all computers in all countries may cause problems...

WOW.  It's one office, 300 sqft with 7-10 PCs.  

What i meant by 100 places was, something like 30 forms + 50 sub routines + 20 queries = 100 places

Just curious ... does the Format really matter since it has not bearing on how the date is actually stored in a table internally ?

MX,

I'll leave this to you...
I gotta get started on the Holiday stuff...
;-)

Jeff

You have to deal with possible different Windows settings for the users, as in a properly set up environment, users will not have been granted permission to change the date and time settings.

The method is simple; whenever a date/time is displayed, set the Format property of the textbox to: mm/dd/yyyy

/gustav

Private Const LOCALE_SSHORTDATE = &H1F
Private Const WM_SETTINGCHANGE = &H1A
     
Private Const HWND_BROADCAST = &HFFFF&

Private Declare Function SetLocaleInfo Lib "kernel32" Alias _
         "SetLocaleInfoA" ( _
            ByVal Locale As Long, _
            ByVal LCType As Long, _
            ByVal lpLCData As String) As Boolean
     
Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias _
         "PostMessageA" ( _
          ByVal hwnd As Long, _
          ByVal wMsg As Long, _
          ByVal wParam As Long, _
          ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
   
Private Declare Function GetSystemDefaultLCID Lib "kernel32" () As Long


Sub chgDate()
Dim dwLCID As Long
Dim myDate As String
       
dwLCID = GetSystemDefaultLCID()
       
       
If SetLocaleInfo(dwLCID, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, "dd/MM/yyyy") = False Then
     MsgBox "Failed"
     Exit Sub
End If
PostMessage HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, 0
       
End Sub

"as in a properly set up environment, users will not have been granted permission to change the date and time settings."
Especially at our LARGE company now that Win7 is being deployed ... total lock down ... barely can write to Registry at all.

mx

Yeah, same goes for changing screen resolution - popular in the days of CRT monitors - a big no-no.

/gustav

Well .. users here can manually change screen res of course ... many still use 800x600 on 24" dual monitors!  Can you say"  I cant' see' !

Really? I haven't seen that on modern flat screen monitors. We always use the default (optimum) resolution.

/gustav