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July 21st, 2011 09:00
Date format on BIOS
Good afternoon people, please forgive my lack of knowledge/terminology!
I have an Inspiron 1545 and want to change the date format on the BIOS (the thing where you press F2 at start up).
It currently shows that date in the MM/DD/YYYY format and this is affecting one of my programs! Is there anyway of changing this so that it reads DD/MM/YYYY? It appears to only let me change the actual date and not the format when I have tried!!
Many thanks
James
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theflash1932
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July 21st, 2011 09:00
The BIOS date is passed to Windows, Windows then formats it according to its settings, then the applications can use the date that Windows has - applications cannot directly access the BIOS, and the date format in the BIOS cannot be changed.
Change the date format in Vista/7 by right-clicking on the clock, Adjust Date/Time, Change Date/Time, and Change Calendar Settings (or go to Start and type in "date format").
ntangney
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September 2nd, 2011 03:00
Hi James,
i seem to be having the same issue.... have you managed to resolve it?
i have set the date and time in windows, and that seems fine but my program seems to take info from the BIOS??
any idea...
windows 7 user
nicholas
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September 5th, 2011 16:00
What programs? Did you change the regional settings to U.K. Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Region and Language
ScottM1978
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October 29th, 2021 07:00
Did anyone get an answer to this, i have the same problem where a programme takes the Bios date settings rather then the windows settings.