PH> Could somebody please give me a little hint on querying the
PH> country information that can be specified under System
PH> Setup|Country|Date?  And if this is not the usual place to look, why
PH> is it there?  
PH> 
PH> I assumed OS/2 would store this kind of information in only one
PH> place.  When I found the DosQueryCtryInfo() function I figured the
PH> information it returned was an image of the Country info accessible
PH> via the WPS.  Unfortunately, DosQueryCtrlInfo() returns a date
PH> format of "mm-dd-yy" which is not what I have programmed
PH> ("yy/mm/dd").  It does, however, match what the DIR command uses for
PH> its dates.
PH> 
PH> Assuming the answer is something like "you can't get those
PH> settings" my question becomes: how can I change from the default
PH> date setting of "mm-dd-yy"?  Is this something to do with
PH> COUNTRY.SYS?  I have a funny feeling SOM is involved here
PH> somewhere...    Thanks for any help!

Sadly, there is very little integration between what PM does with
country information, and what the base OS does.  At the recent PSP
Technical Interchange, MicroBurst, Inc. gave a session on NLS issues. 
All they ever referred to was the information obtained from COUNTRY.SYS
via the Dos APIs.  However, many PM programs instead use what is stored
in the OS2 .INI files for date/time delimiters, currency symbols, etc. 
Use PrfQueryProfileInt/String to get these values:

 "PM_National" "iLzero" "0"
 "PM_National" "s1159" "AM"
 "PM_National" "s2359" "PM"
 "PM_National" "iMeasurement" "1"
 "PM_National" "iCountry" "1"
 "PM_National" "iDate" "0"
 "PM_National" "iCurrency" "0"
 "PM_National" "iDigits" "2"
 "PM_National" "iTime" "0"
 "PM_National" "sCurrency" "$"
 "PM_National" "sThousand" ","
 "PM_National" "sDecimal" "."
 "PM_National" "sDate" "-"
 "PM_National" "sTime" ":"
 "PM_National" "sList" ","

John                                                          
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