Date

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does anyone know if the DateOrder entry in notes ini works e.g DateOrder=D,Y,M

???

Thanks

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Subject: Date

I think I have seen reports of it having no effect, but not recently. What are you trying to achieve with it?

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Subject: RE: Date

looking at the different methods of forcing Date order on a Domino box, I’ve tried the DateOrder entry and it doesn’t work ,not on 6.5 anyway…

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Subject: RE: Date

In most cases it is important to display the date format that the user expects. Different users might expect different formats. If you force the format, then a user might see one format in your application and a different format in all their other applications. This can lead the user to make mistakes when reading and entering data, so it is a bad idea.For Notes clients it is easy to do the right thing. Simply use binary time-date values in forms and views. This makes your application independent of the server’s date format. Users all see the formats that they expect.

For web browsers it may be difficult or impossible, because of limitations and bugs in browsers. In this case the best solution is to make the month a text string – for display and also when a user enters data. Code your application so it is independent of the server’s date format.