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Date format not compliant with regional settings

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First post, by martiro

Posted on 2014-03-17, 22:52

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Hi everyone. I'm trying to run an old 16bit application on DosBox. At first sight everything seems good: the program starts and it seems to work. The problem appears when a function handles a date: the program is projected to work with italian date format (dd/mm/yyyy) and the regional settings are setted accordingly but DosBox seems to override (or not consider at all) them. The result is that the application shows wrong dates causing a wrong behavior.
Is there a way to configure the date format or to inherit the regional settings format?
Thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2014-03-17, 23:58

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Regional formatting in DOSBox's emulated DOS is hard-coded as English/US, which simplifies the code for a feature of little import to games. You can boot real DOS to use its country system, but if you go that far then there's not much reason to use DOSBox over another VM.

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