$ instead of £

[jmorgan]

In the members cars bit?
Or is Bush further ahead in his world domination plans than we thought

[PetrolTed]

Not sure at the moment. The system locale is set to UK so I don't know why it's displaying dollars.

[beano500]

We've been invaded by the Yanks - but I am impressed that you've slashed my running costs - literally overnight - Ted.

Have you organised cheap "gas" too?

Will we have to be careful asking for "FAGS" today?

OOOOOOO - I can afford to upgrade to a new car too!





>> Edited by beano500 on Saturday 22 February 09:42

[MajorClanger]

In the members cars bit?
Or is Bush further ahead in his world domination plans than we thought

Is this the automatic depreciation calculation... after two years it changes to Swiss Francs, Three to South African Rand, Seven it's Yen and after 10 years it's Turkish Lira?

MC

[flasher]

Noticed this yesterday, I was pretty horrified that my T350C had depreciated by around £20,000 in a matter of seconds....

Or is Ted doing it on purpose to scare us?

[PetrolTed]

Can any web developers shed any light on this? I've found it's a bug in the OS that doesn't pick up the locale. MS Support suggests setting the locale directly in my code. I'm doing that but FormatCurrency still throws out a dollar sign.

I can obviously fix it by hard coding but don't really want to trawl through all my code.

[pebbledash]

Mail me the code you use to display the costs if you like, and I'll have a look at it, I have had problems like this in the past and took days to work out what it was.

[Bonce]

I learned recently that Windows 2000 sets the local for IIS to be that of the currently logged on user. I discovered this when someone left a webserver locked instead of logging off and it put all the dates on all websites into American (God Bless America) format.

Logging off the console cured it.

So check that no account is logged on. Then log on with each account that has access and check all the locale settings for that user.

Terminal Services connections do not count - you MUST actually log on to the server with a keyboard and monitor plugged into it to set the locale.

[PetrolTed]

I guess it's wrongly set up for the IUSR account.

This describes the symptoms.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q264063

Not easy for me to phyically get to the box. Might have settle for recoding to record the currency anyway so that it becomes more international anyway.

[GregE240]

Ted, easy way to sort this. If its still a problem, drop me a mail and I'll tell you how.

Cheers,
Greg

[PetrolTed]

Sorted! Thanks Greg.

[Bonce]

Could you possibly share it with the class? I'd like to know if there's an easy fix!

Thanks

[GregE240]

Ted, can you pls mail Bonce the fix?

Ta.

EDIT: Bonce, its just a Registry key you need to change for whichever user its affecting (IUSR for Web servers typically)

Years of setting up bloody Lotus Notes servers with US date format taught me this one!

>> Edited by GregE240 on Friday 28th February 11:31

[Bonce]

Cheers both.