Hi,

Universe defaults to American style date format. To get round this, I 
explicitly set european date format when I create the session object:

sess.command("DATE.FORMAT ON")

where sess is the session object.

hth,

cheers,

asvin

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/01/2006 11:08:40:

> REPOSTED FOR NONMEMBER: "Kryka, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> <Snip> I have a specific problem whereby any formatting I do using
> UniObjects always gives me the date in US format even though all PC
> settings say UK settings.

> <My Response>
> I think that UniObjects goes back to the UniVerse system for date
> conversions.  So you may want to look at your settings there.  Be
> careful about using the UniObjects date conversion - every conversion is
> a call back to UniVerse.  If you have a large array coming from UniVerse
> with internal dates and attempt to convert them within VB, it gets very
> slow.  We wrote our own VB date conversion routines to get around this.

> Dick Kryka
> Director of Applications
> CCCS of Greater Denver, Inc.
> Paragon Financial Services
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