This example displays the current date in country-dependent format.

 #define INCL_DOSNLS        /* National Language Support values */
 #define INCL_DOSDATETIME   /* Date and time values */
 #define INCL_DOSERRORS     /* DOS error values */
 #include <os2.h>
 #include <stdio.h>

 int main(VOID) {

 COUNTRYCODE  Country    = {0};   /* Country code info (0 = current country) */
 COUNTRYINFO  CtryInfo   = {0};   /* Buffer for country-specific information */
 ULONG        ulInfoLen  = 0;
 DATETIME     DateTime   = {0};       /* Date and time information           */
 APIRET       rc         = NO_ERROR;  /* Return code                         */

   rc = DosQueryCtryInfo(sizeof(CtryInfo), &Country,
                          &CtryInfo, &ulInfoLen);

   if (rc != NO_ERROR) {
       printf("DosQueryCtryInfo error: return code = %u\n",rc);
       return 1;
   }

   rc = DosGetDateTime(&DateTime);  /* Retrieve the current date and time  */

   if (rc != NO_ERROR) {
      printf ("DosGetDateTime error : return code = %u\n", rc);
      return 1;
   } else {
      switch (CtryInfo.fsDateFmt) {

      case(1):                                               /* dd/mm/yy */
      printf("Today is %d%s%d%s%d\n", DateTime.day, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator,
              DateTime.month, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator, DateTime.year);
        break;

      case(2):                                               /* yy/mm/dd */
      printf("Today is %d%s%d%s%d\n", DateTime.year, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator,
              DateTime.month, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator, DateTime.day);
        break;

      default:                                               /* mm/dd/yy */
      printf("Today is %d%s%d%s%d\n", DateTime.month, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator,
              DateTime.day, CtryInfo.szDateSeparator, DateTime.year);
        break;

       } /* endswitch */
   }
     return NO_ERROR;
   }