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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP 48 Date Format
Keywords: mdy dmy 48 date format
Message-ID: <283ca390:3248comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 91 05:40:05 GMT
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Eric S Graeler at uceng.uc writes:

> ... it left my Hp displaying the date with .'s instead of /'s.
> ie.  5.20.91 instead of 5/20/91.  A reset would not fix the
> problem or and ON-C.  The only thing that would fix it was ON-A-F.
> Anyone else encounter this problem?

You were merely in D.M.Y mode instead of M/D/Y mode.

Not a problem; a feature!  Don't reset; just press [TIME] [SET] [M/D].

Wickes' MODEBROWser and Donnelly's FCAT also let you toggle this flag,
with English descriptions so you don't have to remember anything.

(BTW, it couldn't have been 5.20.91, but 20.5.91 is possible.
Cf. Owner's Manual, pages 441-442, and page 703: flag -42).

-- Joseph K. Horn -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. --