>Is there a technique for retrieving a list of month and day names (and abbreviations?) from the OS using a specific locale identifier?
>
>My understanding is that cmonth() and cdow() return values that are hard coded in VFP's runtime library.
>
>GetLocaleInfo() does not appear to provide this information.
>http://news2news.com/vfp/?example=76&function=110
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>Any suggestions?
>

Hi Mal :)

The link you provided is for members only. Anyway, the GetLocaleInfo provides all info for names of Day and Month.

The constant to retrieve names of the day is:

#Define LOCALE_SDAYNAME1   0x0000002A  && long name for Monday
...
#Define LOCALE_SDAYNAME7   0x00000030  && long name for Sunday

#Define LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME1  0x00000031   && abbreviated name for Monday
...
#Define LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME7  0x00000037   && abbreviated name for Sunday

And the constant to retrieve names of the month is:

#Define LOCALE_SMONTHNAME1    0x00000038  && long name for January
...
#Define LOCALE_SMONTHNAME12   0x00000043  && long name for December

#Define LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME1   0x00000044   && abbreviated name for January
...
#Define LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME12  0x0000004F   && abbreviated name for December

HTH