We had a site we were looking after and had problems with Delphi & FB.

I checked and the app forgot the format. So I found (and don't know where) the following worked.

// Problem with dates under W7
SetThreadLocale(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT);
GetFormatSettings;

Let me know it is helps.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "oppenhiemerb" <oppenhiemerb@...> wrote:
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> Hi -
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> I recently moved to WIndows 7 from windows XP and am experiencing some odd behaviour with regards the database I am using.
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> Specifically, the interpretation of the date on the 2 versions of windows seems to be causing problems.
Dave.
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