How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

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I cannot change the date format on our Domino Server to DD/MM/YYYY. It currently defaults to MM/DD/YYYY.

I have checked the Regional Settings for the OS (Windows 2000 Server SP4). Location is set to: English(Australia), date format: DD/MM/YYYY.

I have tried adding/modifying the following parameters in notes.ini: DateOrder=DMY, Country_Language=en-AU, Region=en-AU, AltNameLanguage=en, ContentLanguage=en-AU.

There don’t appear to be any regional or date format settings in the Server or Configuration documents for the server accessed via the Administrator client (?). Searching for ‘region’ and ‘date format’ in the Client / Designer / Administration Help yields very little information (aside from a couple of the parameters mentioned above, which are not having any effect). The same goes for the search results on this forum (no useful matches).

I am tearing my hair out, so if you do know how to change the date format / region on a Domino server or you know what is going wrong, please reply.

Paul.

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Subject: How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

hi, try adding - DateFormat=DD/MM/YYYY in your notes.ini, restart domino server. If it is still the same, check you registry…hkey_users/default/control panel/International/iDate…should be 1.1 is for dd/mm/yyyy

0 is for mm/dd/yyyy

  • then restart domino again.

  • i have done this on R5 and R6

hope this helps…

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Subject: How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

sorry! it is DateOrder=DD/MM/YYYYthousand apologies.

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Subject: RE: How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

Thanks Frederick!

DateOrder didn’t work, but the registry value did the trick.

Any idea why the Regional (Date) settings in Control Panel did not modify the appropriate values in the registry?

Paul.

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Subject: RE: How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

Not sure. I got this tip from the the Lotus Knowledge Base when I was using R5 that it hit this problem with the date format.Glad to be of help.

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Subject: RE: How do you change the date format / region on a Domino Server!?

If anyone else still has the problem after this, I found I had to change iDate to “1” whereever it occured in the Registry, not just in the .Default settings

Cheers

Peter