In H&M 7, the language setting seems to have expanded its influence and now affects the format of the <%DATE%> variable. If you set it to English (US) you get MM/DD/YYYY date format, and English (UK) gives you DD/MM/YYYY format. I don't know what controlled the date format in H&M 6 - perhaps the Windows locale - but it didn't depend on the language setting and I got the desired UK format on my UK Windows installation.The default setting is English (United States). This should not be changed for English and Western European languages unless you experience problems with sorting in the Keyword Index.
This change means that in H&M7, in order to get the <%DATE%> variable to work in the UK, you have to disobey the language setting advice in the manual. It hasn't caused me a problem yet, but I am afraid that my next CHM might fail because the H&M 7 manual also says:
So, is this a bug in H&M 7?Because of a bug in the Microsoft HTML Help viewer it is best to set English (United States) for all Western European languages if possible.