Locale learning re: date and timestamp formats

[tford]

In my application I wanted to be able to allow users from different countries the ability to select their preferred date and timestamp format.

I find that in our situation, may from different countries are accustomed to English language systems, but would prefer the dates or timestamps to be in a different format then the U.S. standard.

I found that if I tried to create a new local all of the System strings were not marked as "use original string". So I did the following:

1) Created a new locale called "DD MM YYYY dates"
2) Imported the English.lcl locale file over top of the newly created locale
3) Edited only the date and timestamp formats of the resulting locale.

Result: Allowing the user to choose between various English speaking menu systems that have their own date formats.