On 4/11/01 5:21 PM, "Harry (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that we have established that this is an issue, and can become an issue
> of data loss, can we hope that the Entourage team will use the 'long format'
> in a future update, so that this can be dealt with quite pro-actively?
Hmm. Do you really want the "Sent" to show as "Wednesday, April 11, 2001"?
That's what using the 'long format' will do. Entourage can only be smart
enough to show every user - whether you be American, British, Swedish,
whatever - the short date format you've set in the Date & Time control panel
m/d/yy or dd/mm/yy or yyyy.mm.dd because it accesses the short format there,
which restricts it to 2039 for the moment. If they switch to the long
format, they either have to show it in the long format, or impose a
"standard" version of short format which will upset millions of people who
use a different short format and complaints about MS dictating things, or
maybe they could implement their own short format which would probably
create all sorts of conflicts with the OS.
FWIW, the one scripting addition that can get the short date in the user's
format (Akua Sweets) has the same 2040 limitation.
>
> Such a change should not require any of the previously outlined (in the IE
> list) bureaucratic changes to documentation and localization (as it would be
> transparent, I'd think), so the implementation should be quite possible,
> right?
Wrong.
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