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
Updated File Manager for WFW 3.11 and Post-Year-2000 Dates
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WFWFILUP.EXE
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
Meaning of Report and Table Headings and Terms
Software Products used in Compliance Testing