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Post Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:08 am Reply with quote    Back to top    
How hard could it be to allow tools like FastTrack, Metadata Workbench and so on to use local date formats rather than US ones?

Dates like 1/17/12 are anathema in my part of the world, where DMY is the default order.

If that's too hard, why not hard code every date in ISO 8601 format (CCYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)?

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:24 am Reply with quote    Back to top    
I agree. Same with numeric formats.

Why, for example, do I have to switch my German Windows-client to English-US regional settings to work with Quality-Stage Match-Designer in order to avoid errors related to incorrect decimal-separators?

How hard could it be to transform that to the appropiate format needed by the server?

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