[comp.sys.mac.system] Changing "Date" View in 7.0

an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle) (06/21/91)

I have a simple question:  How do I alter the format of the date
displayed by the Finder when viewing by Name, Size, Kind, etc. ?

It currently reads "Mon, Jun 20, 1991, 3:03 PM".
I want it to read  "6/20/91, 3:03 PM" or something similarly short.
I tried diddling the FVAL resource in the Finder, to no avail.

Please reply via e-mail (if you can't get to me via e-mail, don't
sweat it, I'm sure someone will have :-).  If enough people tell me
they, too, want to know the answer, I'll post a follow-up.  Thanks!

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David C. Tuttle                               dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist               Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas

an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle) (06/21/91)

dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Hey, That's Me!) writes:
>
>I have a simple question:  How do I alter the format of the date
>displayed by the Finder when viewing by Name, Size, Kind, etc. ?
>

The answer came  as quickly as  I expected!  Thanks  to "the  brooding
side of madness  <V113PX6J@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>" for pointing  me to
the FVAL resource in the Finder Preferences file (I was looking at the
FVAL's in the Finder itself).  Changed the  date  format value frokm 2
to   0.   That  did   the   trick!   I   was    also   pointed  to the
finder_7.0_templates file    in the  tech  directory  of  the Info-Mac
Archives, which I'll get when I can get a connection.

-- 
David C. Tuttle                               dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist               Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas