Run a specific Windows application with different regional settings?

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Published on 2010-04-06T15:48:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 15:53 UTC
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We have an old VB6 application, written in the UK, which we want to run on a client's server in Canada. The application must have some hard-coded date formats in it somewhere, as it's misinterpreting dates, eg, 6th April is getting recorded as 4th June. I know I could change the user's date format, but this would affect all applications. Is it possible, perhaps with some sort of wrapper script, to set specific regional settings for this single application?

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