# Set the locale to American English, which lets us do things like use
# American date formats (e.g. "12-30-98" rather than "30-12-98"). This
# will continue to work even when international users have to run this
# program on their computers.
use Win32::OLE::NLS qw(:DEFAULT :LANG :SUBLANG);
   $Win32::OLE::LCID = MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT));