You can call [[NSLocale currentLocale] localeIdentifier], to get the
locale identifier of the user's preferred locale, and then create
another NSLocale from it. This will be a locale that doesn't have any
(not just formatting) user preference overrides in it but is still the
user's preferred base locale. That might be close to what you want.
Contrary to popular opinion [not just yours], NSLocale and
NSDateFormatter also do not know the element orders. They just pass
off the work to lower-level libraries, which -- as far as I understand
it -- also do not themselves directly know what the order is (only
indirectly through sets of format strings). For one thing, the Short
date format for a locale might have one order, the Medium another, the
Long yet another, and so on.
Chris Kane
Cocoa Frameworks, Apple
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard wrote:
Hi Sean,
I want to respect the user's locale, yet ignore his/her preferences
as to formatting.
I thought about modifying the format I get from the standard styles.
I would however expect NSLocale to know the correct order of
elements in the date format.
Pierre
So you want to use the user's preference and yet you don't. The
choice
of leading zeros or no is part of the user's choice. But if you
must,
you could get the user's format string and carefully alter it to add
leading zeros.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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