Date/Time Formats

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Just about every country and region has a different way of formatting dates.  Some use dd/mm/yyyy (day/month/year) while others use mm/dd/yy (month/day/year).   Generally your computer is set to the format that your region uses.  Another thing that is different from reion to reion is the separator (in the case above it is a ForwardSlash   (You can verify this by opening the Control Panel and running the Regional Settings applet, and looking at the Date tab.)

Due to the complexity that this causes for programmers working with dates in their programs, follow these rules for setting the date and time system on your computer, and you should have no problem running the program.

Quick Steps to success!

        (Make sure you use 4 digits for the year (lets be Y2K compliant)

Date Formats

The picture below shows the Date Tab in the Regional Settings Applet.  The system date is displayed as month/day/year.  When creating/editing events in the CountDown program, the same format would have to be used.

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(Note:  If you change the format of the dat in the Control Panel Applet while the CounDown program is running, you will have to close and restart the CountDown program for the changes to take effect.)

Time Formats