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A colleague of mine has a spreadsheet with various dates in them in the
format dd/mm/yyyy.

Some of the dates where the day is less than 13 keep toggling between
displaying dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy, however, if they are formatted as
dd-mmm-yyyy they display the correct date and month.

This only seems to happen on the pc at work and not at home which implies
some configuration issue.

I have seen this problem before myself but never got to the root cause, does
anyone out there have a reason and hopefully a resolution to this issue?

Thanks
David
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It's well worth looking at the Windows Regional Settings (in Control Panel).
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A colleague of mine has a spreadsheet with various dates in them in the
format dd/mm/yyyy.

Some of the dates where the day is less than 13 keep toggling between
displaying dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy, however, if they are formatted as
dd-mmm-yyyy they display the correct date and month.

This only seems to happen on the pc at work and not at home which implies
some configuration issue.

I have seen this problem before myself but never got to the root cause,
does
anyone out there have a reason and hopefully a resolution to this issue?

Thanks
David



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Hi,

Both pc's have the regional settings for the short date set to dd/MM/yyyy.

Thanks
David

"David Biddulph" wrote:

It's well worth looking at the Windows Regional Settings (in Control Panel).
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David Biddulph

"Cookie" wrote in message
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A colleague of mine has a spreadsheet with various dates in them in the
format dd/mm/yyyy.

Some of the dates where the day is less than 13 keep toggling between
displaying dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy, however, if they are formatted as
dd-mmm-yyyy they display the correct date and month.

This only seems to happen on the pc at work and not at home which implies
some configuration issue.

I have seen this problem before myself but never got to the root cause,
does
anyone out there have a reason and hopefully a resolution to this issue?

Thanks
David




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