We've put a lot of effort into making TimeTo™ work for users in many regions of the World. While we must apologize for having some unabashedly North American bias to some of our features, we are working hard to make TimeTo™ even more useful for people from all regions and cultures. However, testing such features can sometimes be tricky for us, so please tell us if you see anything that is not optimal for your region, and we'll see what we can do to improve it. Here's a list of regional issues we take care of so far, and how you can make best use of them:
Date formats: TimeTo™ automatically accommodates all of the most popular date formats for the Gregorian calendar (the typical Western calendar) as set in the Regional And Languages Options control panel of your Windows computer. TimeTo™ will instantly
react to most settings in this control panel. You can see the current date format by looking at the Short Date field on the Regional Options tab in that control panel, and you can change the format by clicking the Customize button on that tab, then click the Date tab, then choose your preferred format from the Short Date Format pulldown and the Date Separator pulldown. Therefore, if
TimeTo™ is not working in the date format you prefer, go that control panel
and choose the date format you prefer.
Time formats: TimeTo™ automatically uses the time format from your Windows Regional And Language Options control panel. As well, independent of the settings in that control panel, you can type times in either 12-hour or 24-hour format anytime, as well as use comma, period or colon to delimit hours and minutes, and mix all these formats from field to field as much as you wish: TimeTo™ will figure out what you mean. (More on shortcuts you can type in time fields)
Character sets: In the Fonts Settings (in TimeTo's Settings menu), every font setting allows you to specify a Script for the font you choose. Although the TimeTo™ interface remains in English, you can change the Script to allow yourself to type in many non-"Western" character sets (including right-to-left alphabets) into fields (such as item titles, the Find command, and Notes), and your words will be stored, searched, and displayed properly. These alphabets are now all supported: Arabic, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic (Russian), East European, Greek, Hangul (Korean), Hebrew, Japanese, Johab (Korean), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. You can even mix languages in one string (assuming the font you have selected supports more than one alphabet). This means that you can type, display and search for information in TimeTo™ in the character set of your choice, assuming you have enabled that character set in the Languages tab of the Regional Options control panel (in Windows XP) or the Region And Language control panel (in Windows 7 or Vista), or the Region control panel (in Windows 8). To enable full support for such character sets (if you have not already done so), you must:
English dialects: We have worked hard to make TimeTo automatically choose the flavor (flavour?) of English (for example, American English vs. British English) in use in your country (though the help files bias towards American English). If you see anywhere in the program where the English does not appear correct for the region your Windows is set to, please tell timetosupport@davidberman.com so that we can correct that.
Currency symbol: TimeTo™ automatically uses the currency symbol designated in your Windows Regional And Language Options control panel. Therefore, if you are not seeing the currency symbol you expect, please go to that control panel and choose the correct symbol. In the rare case that TimeTo™ cannot display a specific currency symbol, it should a question mark instead.
Measurement systems: TimeTo™ can work in Imperial or Metric units: choose your preference in the Page Setup command from TimeTo's File menu.
Weekends: TimeTo™ defaults your workday settings in Work Hours Settings to defining the weekend as Saturday and Sunday, except for some Muslim countries where TimeTo defaults to designating it as Thursday and Friday (Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia) or Friday and Saturday (Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates), and for Israel where we have defined it as Saturday only (for the portion of Friday that is also non-working, we recommend Israelis also set a recurring appointment spanning approximately the appropriate hours each Friday). Independent of this, all users can specify which days of the week are their work days in the Work Hours Settings. If your country's weekend is not defaulting accurately, please tell us so that we can add an appropriate rule for your country.
Calendar: TimeTo™ will honor the days of week names and Gregorian month names for the country designated in your Regional And Language Options control panel in Windows (so, for instance, you'll see those wordings in the Day View heading and in the column headings of the Calendar Window, date picker, and the 31-Day Busy Navigator). Thus, you can display days and months in the language and character set of your choice. However, TimeTo™ will not hon our a Calendar Type other than the Gregorian calendar. For the Calendar Window and date picker, TimeTo™ uses the Script you have chosen in Day Views Text Font (from the Screen Fonts submenu of Fonts Settings).
31-Day Busy Navigator: For the 31-Day Busy Navigator, TimeTo™ uses the days of week names and Gregorian month names for the country designated in your Regional And Language Options control panel in Windows. For the Calendar Window, TimeTo™ uses the Script you have chosen in Day Views Fluid Item Begin Times Font (from the Screen Fonts submenu of Fonts Settings).
World Clocks/Stock Ticker: For the World Clocks/Stock Ticker, TimeTo™ uses the font and Script you designate in Day Views Text Font (from the Screen Fonts submenu of Fonts Settings). Therefore, you can name Time Zones in Time Zone Settings in the language and alphabet of your choice, then select them in World Clocks/Stock Ticker Settings, and they will appear in that language and alphabet in the World Clocks/Stock Ticker at the bottom of the main window. You can designate a Stock for tracking in stock exchanges in 15 countries: to track a stock on an exchange outside the United States, precede the stock symbol with the two-letter country code follow by a colon.
Import from Outlook: TimeTo™ currently supports Import from several language versions of Microsoft Outlook, including English, French, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. If you are having trouble importing files exported from any language version of Microsoft Outlook, please contact timetosupport@davidberman.com so that we can tell you what we help we need from you so that we can improve TimeTo™ to accommodate your language version.
Moon phases: TimeTo™ will display moon phases based upon whether the country your Windows is set to is in the northern or southern hemisphere.
Related Topics
Dates, Times and Durations