>>I'd assume that the behavior of VFP's runtime uses the setting controlled from there as long as you issue SET SYSFORMATS ON. The locale stuff is user-specific, and the settings selected for one user should have no effect on the file system as shared, or on Services which don't run in the context of the currently logged-in user. Just make sure that the secretary isn't logging in as Administrator to access her phone book...
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>She's got the powers of Administrator... I mean, if she asks for something, nobody has the heart to refuse :)
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NOT THE SAME THING (thank gawd.) Administrator 'owns' the files system, so the file system may inherit some of Administrator's locale-specific information. i don't know anywhere near enough about NT internationalization to make a good call on this; I've got a bit more knowledge about Win9x because we have editorial-types who use the Japanese and Korean versions of Win98 and IE on a regular bassis, since we publish books on the Far East...