In a c’t magazine article, the AppLocale tool from Microsoft was
mentioned. I’ll try this and report my findings. 
The funny thing is that Signability runs perfectly fine on my system as
long as the DriverVer line in the INF file is something like this:
DriverVer=11/30/2006,6.0.6000.16386
For all dates after 2006-Nov-30 only an error message is generated.
Very weird.
Using MakeCat is unfortunately not an option as Signability adds some
additional information to the catalog I don’t want to miss.
Comments?
Hagen
Udo Eberhardt schrieb:
Based on your surname, I suppose you are located in Germany…
The Signability tool seems not to work correctly if the system is set to
German data/time format. In Control Panel - Regional and Language
Options set “Standards and formats” to “English (United States)” and try
again. After you are done with Signability you can switch back to German.Udo
Hagen Patzke wrote:
> Today I tried to use Signability to make a CAT file as preparation for
> signing, and encountered this behaviour:
>
> With this line in my INF file:
> DriverVer=12/01/2006,6.0.6000.16386
> Signability reports:
> “Signability Test failed to run, TestDrivers function call failed.”
>
> With “DriverVer=11/30/2006,6.0.6000.16386”, the CAT preparation runs OK.
>
> Dates in the future (2007) produce a clean Signabilty run with an
> error report (post-dating not allowed), which is OK. Same with dates
> far back.
>
> Development OS is WinXP SP2 with WDK 6000 (RTM).
> Comments?
> -H
>