Fix incorrect date format for Czech and Slovak Republic

[jmalak]

Both Countries use DD.MM.YYYY date format.
Microsoft DOS also use this format.

[jmalak]

It is very confusing that you have two repositories to same thing.
One is Kernel with defaults and COUTRY.SYS for override by configuration.
I thing COUNTRY.SYS file should be part of kernel repository to hold current and default values together to don't hold different values or should be cross-referenced in both source files.

[andrewbird]

Ideally country repo would be a submodule of kernel. Unusually it would still be necessary to update two repos: kernel for the default: and country for the other. I suppose we could move the defaults into the country repo, even though it wouldn't actually be used there. Thoughts?

[jmalak]

Sorry, I am new to FD that my experiences with FD project organization/rules is minimal.
I don't use DOS regularly only randomly as test platform, that lot of things I forgot.
I think both should use same source conditionally but it is hard if they are divided as now.
Cross-reference to each other on top of source files could be OK.
Anyway what is reason for holding a lot of country info in the kernel, I am not sure how it is in MSDOS but probably only US info are there and rest is in COUNTRY.SYS and must be configured explicitly.

[bttrx]

@andrewbird @jmalak @PerditionC Please, can we go on with the discussion and come to some decisions?

[andrewbird]

Hi Robert,
I'm happy to take the updates here and make the kernel use this repo as a submodule (so removing its own copy of country.asm). Regarding the kernel defaults I'm thinking it might be more maintainable to have them here also but as a separate file that the kernel can include. @PerditionC are you in agreement with that scheme? Regarding @jmalak's thoughts on holding only US info in the kernel, I'm probably not the right person to consider this as being a native English speaker I've not had much cause to fiddle with country settings except perhaps to enable the £ sign, so the consequences of missing country specific info in the kernel are not clear to me.

[andrewbird]

@PerditionC I've made a little tweak as per Robert's comment in #1, you should merge @jmalak's #2 (this PR) and my new PR #3 to make this repo the up to date one. Then if you are in agreement I'll start on making this a suitable submodule?

[andrewbird]

The conversion to submodule is complete and merged into both country and kernel repos. If you want to checkout the result download the kernel build artefact file from here https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/actions/runs/1638169003 you should be able to test both the gcc and watcom compiled kernels and the country.sys that was built alongside them. All future updates for both should go the to https://github.com/FDOS/country repo.

[PerditionC]

Thank you

[bttrx]

Thanks for your efforts.
I tested your watcom-built country.sys artifact with (049,858) on SvarDOS and FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 successfully.

[andrewbird]

Thanks for testing.