Regional and Language Settings

[Guest Simon Minder]

Hi all,

 

We are a company based in Switzerland, which has obviously the standards and

formats set to "German (Switzerland)" in the Regional Options in the

"Regional and Lanaguage Options" in the "Control Panel".

 

However, I have a couple of users who run software which should report the

dates (e.g. March) in English and not in German (März = March).

 

I am aware, that I could change the standards and formats to "English

(United States)". However, this has a negative effect in Excel, on the

currency and dates in other applications.

 

Does anybody know a workaround that the dates are displayed in English (e.

g. March) and not in German?

 

Kind regards,

 

Simon

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Regional and Language Settings

 

See below.

 

"Simon Minder" <SimonMinder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4FBDA90A-319D-4862-ABAF-17FEF5819C37@microsoft.com...

> Hi all,

>

> We are a company based in Switzerland, which has obviously the standards

> and

> formats set to "German (Switzerland)" in the Regional Options in the

> "Regional and Lanaguage Options" in the "Control Panel".

*** Not so obvious - it could be set to French (Switzerland) or to

*** Italian (Switzerland).

> However, I have a couple of users who run software which should report the

> dates (e.g. March) in English and not in German (März = March).

>

> I am aware, that I could change the standards and formats to "English

> (United States)". However, this has a negative effect in Excel, on the

> currency and dates in other applications.

>

> Does anybody know a workaround that the dates are displayed in English (e.

> g. March) and not in German?

*** Your two requirements appear mutually contradictory. In one

*** application you expect the month to appear as March and in the

*** other as März, even though both applications obtain the month

*** code from the operating system.

***

*** You might be able to resolve the issue by creating a different user

*** whose country code is set to US English. Maybe if the user runs

*** the problem application under that second account, using the "run as"

*** facility, then it would adopt the desired setting. Just an idea - I

haven't

*** tested it. It this does not work then perhaps the boys in the Excel

*** newsgroup have some suggestion for you.

> Kind regards,

>

> Simon