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altering the winning numbers date
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:56 am
by niceguy
Hi Stan. Could you please tell me how to alter the date sequence in the winning numbers charts. (visual & winning numbers) e.g. mine has suddenly reverted back to month/day/year. Whereas I would like to change it back to day/month /year. :wand: Thanks
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:28 pm
by stan
you need to open your lottery properties file (e.g. "c:program filesexpertlottodataloteryXYZlotteryXYZ.properties"), find row begining with "wn.pattern.date.short=" and/or "wn.pattern.date.long=" and change the order of date fields.
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:49 pm
by niceguy
HiStan. I tried that but it won't let me into the file. (ie cannot open it up)
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:57 am
by stan
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HiStan. I tried that but it won't let me into the file. (ie cannot open it up)
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you should be able to open that file in e.g. windows notepad. it's just a plain text file.
make sure you close expert lotto before editing that file (just in case)
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:55 pm
by niceguy
Hi Stan tried that & now have the dates in the correct order -i.e. dd/mm/yy . Only thing is now that all the months ( both winning numbers & winning number history) show up as '0" e.g instead of 08/03/06 they all show 08/00/06. I tried using the wizard to reinstall all the results, but the same thing happened..............it left the months as two 'O's" :wand:
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:59 pm
by niceguy
Just wondering if it is possible to add something in the preferences so the dd/mm/yy can be altered according to the user preference ?
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:41 am
by niceguy
Hi Stan. After further "trial & error" (thanks to your excellent help) I have now fixed the date problem.
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:55 am
by stan
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Just wondering if it is possible to add something in the preferences so the dd/mm/yy can be altered according to the user preference ?
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it would be possible to add these settings to the lottery wizard however the date pattern is not very user-friendly (more like a programmer/developer thing:) so i'd rather avoid that and handle all change requests individually.