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Re: (URGENT REQUIREMENT)?Jobs for IT Professionals in Bangalore,UK,No rth & South India.

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:44:59 +0100
Message-ID: <3d9c038d$0$8506$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:wOJm9.44993$g9.128257_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> But it's all a losing battle, I think. Everytime I install any software
> package that worries about 'locales', guess which locale is *always*
> defaulted to? Why, 'United States', naturally. My Windows installations
> always seem to think they should be running Seattle time by default. And
do
> you know how far it is to scroll from the "U"s to the "A"s?? At least the
> UK only has one or two spaces to travel. We Aussies have a mile to scroll!

You'd have thought. However there is an increasing trend to put United States as item zero in a list box and *then* to list everything in alpha order. Grrr.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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