Change date format for wine (Windows software)

Question

When I run a windows software with wine1.6 on Ubuntu 14.04, it asks to change date format to dd/mm/yyyy.

Now what to do? How can I change format for this?

This question is not about changing date/time format for showing in indicator.

Answer 1

1. Open Terminal, run:

   wine regedit
   

2. Follow path:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
   

3. Change the entry sShortDate to dd/MM/yyyy (notice the capital M)

   

Answer 2

I was experiencing the same difficulty and this answer was of great help. The only thing is the regedit entry was reverting back to default each time I run the application. This was happening because I had to set LANG=pt_BR.utf8 before calling wine <myapp.exe>.

So the solution for me was:

1. issued export LANG=pt_BR.utf8;
2. followed user.dz's steps;
3. run wine <myapp.exe>

My application also demanded arial.ttf font, which I downloaded to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts.