UK Date script

[bsouthuk]

Does anybody know how to tell revolution to reveal a date in british format? i.e day/month/year?

At the moment mine is set to USA format - month/day/year.

i have tried

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 put the british date into field "date"

but that doesnt work.

Cheers

Daniel

[Duncan]

I think you need English rather than British.

[bsouthuk]

Sorry thats actually what I mean but it still displays the date in US format.

Why on earth is that?

[SparkOut]

Unfortunately this is not a global setting - you will need to declare it in each handler where dates are being manipulated in the "local" view, but you can

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set the useSystemDate to true
put the short date into field "date"

and Rev will put the date format into the local view, as set by the user's system. It can cause a problem if you have international views, so it can be a good idea always to store dates in seconds or dateItems formats (or for storing in a database, convert to ISO formats first and handle appropriately on retrieval).

[Duncan]

According to the dictionary Month/Day/Year is the English form:

A long English date looks like this: Thursday, June 22, 2000
An abbreviated English date looks like this: Thu, Jan 22, 2000
A short English date looks like this: 1/22/00

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put the system date into the field 

uses the D/M/Y version on my UK based computer.

[bsouthuk]

Brilliant - thats sorted it, thanks Duncan

Dan

[PeterG]

Hi Guys

Just played with the dates and got the following results:
At the moment I am using LiveCode 8.1.8
Set my Mac to South Africa. we use dd/mm/yyyy
using this script

put empty into field "Date"
set the useSystemDate to true
put the short date into field "Date"

produces 2017/12/28

Then I set the regional setting to UK with the same script and got exactly the same result 2017/12/28

[richmond62]

Interesting:

My iMac 10.7.5 currently set at Eastern European Time
and "Custom" Region:

gives me 28/12/17

which is near enough to what you choose to call "British" time.

You can muck around with these settings forever in Mac OS . . . and Revolution/LiveCode
being "dumb" in this respect will just read whatever the system dishes out.

[MaxV]

Hi folks,
I remember you that there is the free date library here: https://github.com/derbrill/libdate
With a lot of functions ready to use for dates, and you a free to contribute. (Sign in, click fork, make your edits and push "pull request")

[richmond62]

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on mouseUp
   put empty into fld "modDATE"
   put empty into fld "origDATE"
   set the useSystemDate to true
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   put the dateFormat into PHORMAT
   switch (item 1 of PHORMAT)
      case "%#d"
         put (item 1 of the short date) into DEN
         break
      case "%#m"
         put (item 1 of the short date) into MESETS
         break
         case "%Y"
         put (item 1 of the short date) into GODINA
         break
   end switch
   switch (item 2 of PHORMAT)
      case "%#d"
         put (item 2 of the short date) into DEN
         break
      case "%#m"
         put (item 2 of the short date) into MESETS
         break
         case "%Y"
         put (item 2 of the short date) into GODINA
         break
   end switch
   switch (item 3 of PHORMAT)
      case "%#d"
         put (item 3 of the short date) into DEN
         break
      case "%#m"
         put (item 3 of the short date) into MESETS
         break
         case "%Y"
         put (item 3 of the short date) into GODINA
         break
   end switch
   put GODINA && "/" && MESETS && "/" && DEN into fld "modDATE"
   put the short date into fld "origDATE"
end mouseUp

Obviously you can muck around with the line:

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 put GODINA && "/" && MESETS && "/" && DEN into fld "modDATE"

to reorder things to suit your needs.

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[richmond62]

Frankly, why I, or anyone else for that matter, didn't think of "that" years ago I just don't know.

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[jacque]

The systemDate uses the settings in the OS preferences for the date format. After changing the region, also check to make sure that the date format is what you expect.

If you omit the line in the handler that uses the system date, you'll always get the English date by default.

[richmond62]

The "thing" about my script is that if you don't know what your end-user's date format it it doesn't matter.

This could be useful if you want your standalone to "phone home" with a date, or set an expiry date
for a licence.

[bogs]

The "thing" about my script is that if you don't know what your end-user's date format it it doesn't matter.

If you were looking for specific formatting, regardless of the end users system, why wouldn't you just use the date() function? Seems like "put item 2, item 1, item 3 of the date" would be easier than anything else, once you settle on a format you want to grab from, internet, long, short, etc.

[jacque]

The "thing" about my script is that if you don't know what your end-user's date format it it doesn't matter.

This could be useful if you want your standalone to "phone home" with a date, or set an expiry date
for a licence.

If you don't know the user's date format, using the systemDate will display it as the user would expect. Then, if you later want a standard format for communication with other apps or a server script, you would specify the English date, dateItems, internet date, or any of the other date formats. You can also use the dateFormat for more granular control.

Date formats are very flexible and designed to cover the situation you described, so there's no need to write a script for it.

EDIT: Apologies, dateFormat is read-only. No wonder I always parse dateItems.