Re: Windows 2000 Global Variables, where stored?

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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