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how to change date settings "DOS COUNTRY"

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First post, by steven007

Posted on 2007-06-11, 20:29

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With the command in vista i have the european layout of date : dd/mm/yyyy,
once a run a program under Dosbox than it is the US way : mm/dd/yyyy,
i would like to thange it in European style : dd/mm/yyyy, In real dos it's the command COUNTRY in the config.sys who did that,
in dosbox DATE and TIME have no effect,
anybody can help ?

Thnks,

Reply 1 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2007-06-11, 20:59

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I think you can't do that, YET.

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Reply 2 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-06-11, 22:10

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Can you tell us why you want to change the format?

Reply 3 of 6, by steven007

Posted on 2007-06-13, 12:58

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It's for an Dos based program who calculate dates in a "cow management" program. It is used in France, Belgium, Netherlands, ..

Reply 4 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-06-13, 13:10

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I see only 2 options:

1) Boot a real MS-DOS inside DOSBox. Then you will have all the joy of a CONFIG.SYS file and the COUNTRY option. It is possible, but I don't know how.

2) Create a modified version of DOSBox for your need. You need to download the source code and compile it yourself. Possible, but a lot of work.

Reply 5 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2007-06-13, 15:38

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If it is really critical for you, send an email to us (crewpage of dosbox) and we'll help you on a one on one basis

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Reply 6 of 6, by honx

Posted on 2018-07-23, 22:17

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i'm having the same problem i think (my english is limited).
want to set something like "country=049,850,country.sys" in dosbox
for proper date display in norton commander within dosbox.
in other words i want to see 20:22 instead of 8:22p and similar.
how can i do that, as there is still no config.sys in z: drive.
there is also no country.sys, so how can i solve this problem?

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