[Bug 49827] New: sDate stopped working after Wine 3.x

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49827

            Bug ID: 49827
           Summary: sDate stopped working after Wine 3.x
           Product: Wine
           Version: 5.17
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: michaelwitten82 at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

I am on Ubuntu and have recently moved up to 20.04.1, and after the re-install
I installed MYOB in PlayOnLinux (as I always have) and the date format was
wrong.

After a LOT of testing (you can see further in a Ubuntu bug I submitted -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/playonlinux/+bug/1892859) I have
found what the issue is. After seeing that between Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 they
moved from wine 3.0 to 5.0, I have tested various versions in PlayOnLinux (all
32-bit, 64-bit seemed to have other issues):
5.0 (default) - NOT working
5.16 (latest in PlayOnLinux) - NOT working
4.21 - NOT working
3.21 - WORKS

There is an easy way to test this (in PlayOnLinux)
1. Open the General tab in the Config for the VM
2. Change the Wine version to whichever you want to test
3. Go to the Wine tab and Windows reboot (I do this to be safe)
4. Open the Command prompt (under the same tab)
5. Type "date"

It will show the current date in the format being used in wine on that vm. For
me, even though everything is set to en_AU and registry settings etc are to
dd/MM/yyyy (also tried d/MM/yyyy) my date format shows as en_US format
(MM/dd/yyyy -not sure if its dd or d as its the 13th today), until I drop back
to version 3.x.

This won't be an issue to people playing games etc I guess, but to anyone doing
anything with dates important (for example I am doing accounting, so my
invoices show wrong dates) this is a show stopper.

I have seen other people online ask about it but none of the answers worked for
me. I would think this is something pretty urgent to look at and get correct.

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