Microsoft KB Archive/130135

Automap: Unable to Enter AM or PM in Route Settings

PSS ID Number: Q130135 Article last modified on 07-11-1995

WINDOWS

= SYMPTOMS =

When you attempt to enter a time of day followed with an A.M. or P.M. designation in the Route Settings section, Automap fails to hold Hour settings.

= CAUSE =

If settings for Time Format in the Control Panel International section have been changed to a 24-hour format and then switched back to a 12-hour format, the settings do not default to the A.M. or P.M. designation. Instead, the dialog boxes are blank.

= WORKAROUND =

Use one of the following methods to restore A.M. or P.M. designations:

Method 1
  From Control Panel, usually located in the Main program group, choose the International icon.   In the Time Format section of the International dialog box, choose change.   Make sure the 12-hour format is selected. In the box to the right of 12-hour format, type am   In the box to the right of the 24-hour format type, pm   Choose OK. The A.M. or P.M. designation returns. 

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Method 2
  In a text editor, such as Windows Notepad, open your WIN.INI file.   In the [intl] section find the following lines: s1159= s2359= and change them to: s1159=am s2359=pm </li>  Save WIN.INI and restart Windows. NOTE: Restarting Windows is not required for the change to occur in Automap, but it is necessary to change time designations elsewhere in Windows. </li></ol>

= MORE INFORMATION =

The loss of A.M. and P.M. designations when you change from 12-hour format to 24-hour format and then back again, effects not only Clock, but every Windows-based application that displays time in digital format.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the top of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbmm kbbuglist kbinterop kbenv kbprb KBSubcategory: win31

= Additional reference words: auto auto-map automap reference =

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