>>>I wonder why there is no global SET DATE (or SET CURRENCY) setting that would work without code in every Load method.
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>In the VFP3 beta I argued repeatedly that SET DATE/SET SYSFORMAT etc either should default to machine locale or should not be scoped per datasession, but was shot down.
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>Even with SYSFORMAT set to default we still encounter issues where a machine is updated/reverts to US locale so date fields won't accept 19/11/2018 which causes a support ticket.
So far, in my testing, I found that changing the date to a British or other euro formats is not that difficult. Just some time to go through the millions of lines of code :). GoFish helps a lot.
Thank you.
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