It is very difficult to get the headers of one's emails to give ISO 8601. Outlook Express always seems to use MMM-DD-YY and am/pm, irrespective of one's regional settings. This is the reason why John gets all these e-mails with MM-DD-YYYY and am/pm formats from abroad. I have two PC's. One has Windows 98, the new one that I use for the Internet has Windows XP. Both were set to the Dutch language and metric, YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour format in the regional settings. Yet my e-mails produced American date and time; John had informed of this. What did I do? Really weird. To start, I set my new computer to USA English. Then I changed within that format all the relevant settings: system of units, date, time, decimal marker and currency unit. And it worked! Outlook Express, always going to USA settings, accepted my modified ones. Now my e-mail headers show the YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour settings at last.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-10-06 16:23 Subject: [USMA:22472] Re: Why ISO paper is metric and US paper is not > 2002-10-06 > > Markus, > > I have received e-mails at work from many different parts of the world and > in ALL cases, the header that their computers produce is in the US format. > My computer is set to the ISO format, so it displays on their computers that > way, but theirs always appears in the US format. This is because Microsoft > defaults its operating system to US formats when English is the selected > language, and all of the correspondences so far have their settings to > English. <snip> > John <snip>
