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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Amiga 500/2000 Workbench / keymaps
Message-ID: <1409@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 07:18:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1409
Posted: Sun Jul 19 07:18:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 20:41:30 EDT
References: <13160@topaz.rutgers.edu> <122@ers.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 25
Keywords: A500 A2000 Workbench 33.56
Summary: ch == Swiss

In article <122@ers.UUCP> neil@ers.UUCP (neil) writes:
>In article <13160@topaz.rutgers.edu>, lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>> 
>> :devs/Keymaps/ch1
>> 
>> 	Very unlikely this is Chinese; may be Swiss or Czech.
>> 
>Almost certainly swiss since the international auto sign for Switzerland
>is CH, short Cantonica Helvetica, scuse my latin roots.

It is Swiss; says so in the Manual.

>One of the really nice things about Commodore is its international
>approach to things. Gee I wish IBM would adopt sensible date formats,
>either universal yymmdd or ddmmyy or ddmonyy, but mmddyy is just plain
>stupid, but I suppose it's kept for hysterical reasons.

Beleive it or not, IBM PC-DOS & Ms.Dos have a "country code", and the
standard commands (like "dir") look at it and display the date appropriately.
Set it for England, for example, and you get (I think) dd-mm-yy.
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