British date format / US date format

[Reesy]

I have an asp page which selects information from an Oracle 8i database using ODBC and displays it in a browser window.
One of the fields displayed is a date - this date is being shown in US format i.e. Month/Day/Year
I want it to be displayed in British format - Day/Month/Year

The 'Windows 2000 Server' running IIS is set up for British date and time in the control panel.

Also the same asp page running on a different server (a windows 98 PC running PWS) shows the date correctly.

Anybody any ideas? - Are there any IIS settings for date format?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!! Blood, Sweat But No Tears!

 

[onpnt]

the easiest way off hand I can think of is to use Session.LCID to change the servers default in the page.
examples:

http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/faq/date_time_settings.asp

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[Reesy]

Thanks onpnt!
That does the job.

There must be a setting somewhere though - you shouldn't have to put that code into every site you write??

Reesy. Blood, Sweat But No Tears!

 

[onpnt]

did a bit of looking around and came up with this. although systems do not match the criteria it should give you a looking reference. sorry, not in the position to actually look at this live as I'm without IIS at the moment.

Control Panel > Regional Settings Date Tab. Set short date preference to M/d/yyyy. This setting is often lost on rebooting Windows NT (it returns to M/d/yy which causes a Y2K problem). Reset short date preference to M/d/yyyy as shown and problems should clear.

link

http://www.skybuilders.com/Documentation/InstallManual.html

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[onpnt]

and then we have it

Try setting it from Control Panel,regional setting box


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[Reesy]

The regional settings, short date etc. are all set up correctly i.e. for English (UK) and dd/mm/yyyy

Strange! Blood, Sweat But No Tears!