Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

2243.0. "WPL_DATEFORMAT Misunderstanding" by VNABRW::EHRLICH_K (Monarchy: Karl&Chessie HABSBURG) Wed Feb 10 1993 12:20

Hi all,
	I've a little misunderstanding with the format of the date, after
doing an upgrade from A1V24 to A1V30.

Doing a GOLD DATE within an ALL-IN-1 menu, the actual date is displayed
in the last row like

03.Feb.1993 10:35 > That's the Format which you can define at LINK-Time,
		    isnt' it ???
		    Format: 2 which means SystemDefault.	
		    Don't worry about the format, it's GERMAN LLV.

In the users' profile dateformat 7 is defined (means SystemDefault).

But in the WPS+ Editor, editing a document and you press GOLD DATE here,
you get only the day inserted in the document. This happens with all user.
3 
And of course in a control block using =D. Printing such a document you'll
find only 3 as the actual date.

Solution is only doing a F9 calling the EditorMenu and change the Dateformat.

Here's someting more I don't understand, the Defaultvalue of the Dateformat is
only 5 and not the Value I expect from WPLDATES_DE_GERMAN.MSG.

But this must be done by all user. So my question now is, is there any way to do
this for all user after the upgrade automatically. All user have their standard
format back again ????

I've checked Note 582.* of the WPS+ Conference and I was applying the changings
of the WPL_DATEFORMAT in OA$LIB:WPLDATES_DE_GERMAN.MSG, replace it, relink
ALL-IN-1, but it doesn't work here either. I don't know what else could be 
wrong here.

Many thanks for your help here and for giving me a light in the dark

Best regards
Charly_from_CSC_Vienna.    

PS: I don't know exactly if this problem is in ALL-IN-1 or in WPS+, please don't
    worry that I've posted this in both conferences.
PPS: Here's the part of OA$LIB:WPLDATES_DE_GERMAN.MSG

!WPL_DATEFORMAT          "4 5.1.6 8:9"	old (Default after Upgrade)
WPL_DATEFORMAT           "5.1.6 8:9"	new after my changing
    

    The date format you get when you do GOLD DATE in WPS-PLUS and in the
    rest of ALL-IN-1 are controlled separately. I had this idea (while we
    were developing V3.0) that I would make it so that you only got asked
    one question during installation and then make both formats be the
    same, but unfortunately ( :-) ) WPS-PLUS's date routines are much
    cleverer than ALL-IN-1's and allow lots more formats...
    
    We were planning to fix ALL-IN-1's date code to offer the same sort of
    flexibility, but the supporting routines we needed weren't going to be
    developed in the right timescales.
    
    So to change the WPS-PLUS date format, you need to change the message
    file as you mentioned. The process is quite complex, so there's lots of
    chances to get it wrong!
    
    Graham