wine users - Jun 2002 - Getting at the "default Windows short date"

I've had some great success with wine recently, but am a little unsure about
the best way to attack this problem.

I want to run an accounting program called Cash Flow Manager under wine.
(As it happens, this program is our last dependency on Windows apps in our 
office, everything else is OpenOfifce.org and RH Linux).

When I run the application:

    wine /c/Program\ Files/CashflowGST/CASHFLOWGST.exe

I get a popup window with:

    Cashflow Manager requires the default Windows short date 
    format for your selected language.
    Your currently selected short date format does not match the
    Windows default. You will need to
    select the default Windows Short Date format before
    proceeding.

On the Windows 2000 machine, the so called short date in
"Settings/Control Panel/Regional Options/Date", is:

    d/MM/yyyy

and I suspect that I need to make this same entry in my wine environment, 
(perhaps in system.reg?), but where do I start? 

Any pointers gratefully received.

Regards,

Simon Taylor
-- 
Unisolve Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
+61 3 9568 2005

Simon Taylor wrote:
>I've had some great success with wine recently, but am a little unsure
about
>the best way to attack this problem.
>
>I want to run an accounting program called Cash Flow Manager under wine.
>(As it happens, this program is our last dependency on Windows apps in our 
>office, everything else is OpenOfifce.org and RH Linux).
>
>When I run the application:
>
>    wine /c/Program\ Files/CashflowGST/CASHFLOWGST.exe
>
>I get a popup window with:
>
>    Cashflow Manager requires the default Windows short date 
>    format for your selected language.
>    Your currently selected short date format does not match the
>    Windows default. You will need to
>    select the default Windows Short Date format before
>    proceeding.
>
>On the Windows 2000 machine, the so called short date in
>"Settings/Control Panel/Regional Options/Date", is:
>
>    d/MM/yyyy
>
 try dd/MM/yyyy first. If that doesn't work, there may be some problems 
with how dates are dealt with that is addressed with by this patch. 
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0079.html
>
>and I suspect that I need to make this same entry in my wine environment, 
>(perhaps in system.reg?), but where do I start? 
>
>Any pointers gratefully received.
>
>Regards,
>
>Simon Taylor
>  
>
If none of this works you can submitt a bug report to http://bugs/winehq.org


Tony Lambregts

--- Simon Taylor <simon@unisolve.com.au> wrote:
> I've had some great success with wine recently, but
> am a little unsure about  
> the best way to attack this problem.
> 
> I want to run an accounting program called Cash Flow
> Manager under wine.
> (As it happens, this program is our last dependency
> on Windows apps in our 
> office, everything else is OpenOfifce.org and RH
> Linux).
> 
> When I run the application:
> 
>     wine /c/Program\
> Files/CashflowGST/CASHFLOWGST.exe
> 
> I get a popup window with:
> 
>     Cashflow Manager requires the default Windows
> short date 
>     format for your selected language.
>     Your currently selected short date format does
> not match the
>     Windows default. You will need to
>     select the default Windows Short Date format
> before
>     proceeding.
> 
> On the Windows 2000 machine, the so called short
> date in
> "Settings/Control Panel/Regional Options/Date", is:
> 
>     d/MM/yyyy
> 
> and I suspect that I need to make this same entry in
> my wine environment, 
> (perhaps in system.reg?), but where do I start? 
This is described here:
http://wine.codeweavers.com/fom-meta/cache/693.html

Let us know if this does not work or you have other
problems.

Good luck in getting rid of Windows ;-)
Andriy

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