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Why do dates and times apear in the wrong format?

 

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Because you haven't set up the country information correctly, the default is set for the United States.
To remedy this you need to add a line to your CONFIG.SYS file which looks something like this:
Country=nnn,,d:\path\COUNTRY.SYS
'nnn' is the country code (see the table below).
'd' is the drive which contains the file COUNTRY.SYS.
'path' is the path of the COUNTRY.SYS file.
Belgium032
Brazil055
Canadian-French002
Czech Republic/Slovakia042
Denmark045
Finland358
France033
Germany049
Hungary036
International English061
Italy039
Latin America003
Netherlands031
Norway047
Poland048
Portugal351
Spain034
Sweden046
Switzerland041
United Kingdom044
United States001
Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia/Yugoslavia038
Since I live in England I use the United Kingdom code, which is 044.
The COUNTRY.SYS file on my machine is on drive C, in the DRDOS directory, so I need the following line in my CONFIG.SYS file.
Country=044,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS

If you want more information on this topic then refer to COUNTRY.SYS and KEYB.COM in the DOS Reference section.

 


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