Microsoft Windows 3.1

PROGRAMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CINDERELLA COMMUNITY

Start the "Control Panel" appplication, select International and change the date to YMD, leading digit day, leading digit month, Century year, separator '-.

Sneaky Assumptions: the table below assumes that users with US keyboards put COUNTRY=002,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS into Config.sys This is not going to work for all countries, or for people who fiddle their translate tables, this will have to be an experiment in the future.

This results in \WINDOWS\WIN.INI containing the following:

[intl]
sDate=-
sShortDate=yyyy-MM-dd
sLongDate=dddd', 'yyyy' 'MMMM', 'dd

Patches required

Updated File Manager for WFW 3.11 and Post-Year-2000 Dates
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WFWFILUP.EXE

Summary

System/Pgm      Display             Method  Index Iface Calc Comp Sort

MS WINDOWS 3.1    YYYY-MM-DD       (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Filemgr         19:1-02-29       (Internat)  8   ?     Y   Y    Y
  Clock           YYYY-MM-DD       (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Winlink 1.21c   garbled          (Program)   8   Y     Y   Y    Y
  QPRO 6.1        YYYY-MM-DD       (Options)   0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Lotus 5.0       YY-MM-DD         (Options)   4   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Excel 5         YYYY-MM-DD       (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  MS Project 3.0  Full ISO         (Options)   0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Winzip 5.6      YY-MM-DD         (Country)   4   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Agent .99       Full ISO         (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Eudora          Full ISO         (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Quattro Pro 6.1 Full Ymd         (Options)   0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Wordperfect 6.1 Full YMD         (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Paradox 5.0     Full ISO         (Options)   0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  ABC Flow 3.0    Full Long        (Options)   0   Y     Y   Y    Y
  Powerpoint 4.0c Full ISO         (Internat)  0   Y     Y   Y    Y

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Software Products used in Compliance Testing