Re: [PCTECH] Windows 2000 Global Variables, where stored?

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

My guess would be that it is buried deep in some dll somewhere within
Windows. Let us know if you find it out.


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:07:33 +0100, Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
<afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been searching something that seems so obvious... and I think
> I've seen somewhere before, but cannot find it!!!
> I was searching also thru Internet, but there are many references to it,
> but nobody tells where it is!:
> 
> The question:
> I guess names for the days of the week, names for the months, etc are
> kept by Windows somewhere, maybe in the Registry, or in Win.ini, or some
> place like that. Tried them all, but could not find them:
> 
> Using Delphi: Delphi retrieves those values from some "global variables"
> into special registers whose names are:
> "ShortDayNames", "LongDayNames", ShortMonthNames", "LongMonthNames",
> where you get arrays of values containing:
> "Mon, Tue, Wed, ...    "Monday, Tuesday, ...  "Jan, Feb, Mar...
> "January, February, ...
> in the local language (spanish in my case)
> 
> I know I can access these thru special GetLocale type of functions, and
> also can edit date_type data using DateFormatingStrings of the type 'dd
> mmmm yyyy' to get long month names, etc.
> 
> But what I'm looking for is WHERE does Windows keep those literal
> values? They are accessed also from Word or Excel, ...
> 
> So, the question is, where does Windows (2000 in my case, if that
> matters...) keep these "regional/language" named values for days and
> months in their short/long format?
> TIA
> 
> --
> Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
> afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
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