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<concept id="GUID-5C503AA6-FF44-5183-92D1-C06A141CDB38" xml:lang="en"><title>How

to set the locale</title><shortdesc>Use <apiname>TLocale::Set()</apiname> to set the system-wide locale

settings.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

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<p>All applications subsequently using locale information will honour these

settings. Note that most applications do not need to change the locale settings,

they merely honour them. In this case, <codeph>Refresh()</codeph> should be

used to refresh the contents of a <codeph>TLocale</codeph> object with the

system's locale settings.</p>

<p>To change the system locale and some of its locale-dependent date and time

settings, implement code as follows:</p>

<codeblock id="GUID-7648B92D-B13F-5B88-89ED-9907A3AA462F" xml:space="preserve">...

    // Get current system locale information

TLocale locale;

    // Change date separators 1 and 2 to hyphens; date separators 0 and 3

    // remain null characters

locale.SetDateSeparator('-',1);

locale.SetDateSeparator('-',2);

    // set the locale to Southern hemisphere with

    // a +10 hour time offset

locale.SetUniversalTimeOffset(36000);

locale.SetHomeDaylightSavingZone(EDstSouthern);

    // Set daylight saving on for the southern hemisphere

locale.SetDaylightSaving(EDstSouthern);

    // set system locale settings

locale.Set();

....</codeblock>

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