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Change Date Format in XP
Name: cuthereguys Date: March 11, 2008 at 03:22:09 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512MB Product: IBM M52
Comment:
The system default short date format is: dd-MM-yyyy. We have an application that runs with the date format in: dd/MM/yyyy. Is there any method (e.g. batch) so that we can change the date format temporary when launch the application and then change back to the system default after close the application without the need to ask user to do the change manually via the Control Panel? Thanks
Summary: from looking in this forum, there's a way to change date format in Xp. (possibly even specific to "dir" cmd). if so, the easiest way would be change format to yyyy[/]mm[/]dd, do "dir /s | sort /r > f...
Summary: Got a batch file for you (it's even reusable!). Just run it like so: ifdate.bat [date] [command] [date] is in the format mmddyyyy. Put [command] in quotes if it's more than one word. For your usage he...
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