I agree with you all here Jim, Dennis, Emmitt, Bernie, and want to thank you
ALL. However I would also add Military time as a setting.
The .vLFNFileDT1 is coming from a Plugin from a RBase PowerPack, it is set
as MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM AM/PM. But I cannot control the results that I am
provided.
I could use Mike B. dll as an alternate, a bit shorter code wise but it also
includes using an additional dll.
The only other thing here is the file etiquette, I agree with the not start
out with a number format. I was in fact going to include an alpha ('Arc')
before the date then file name. The reason for all of this is the file name
that I am provided with its proprietary nature and encoded (when this file
opens it looks at its file name and then some, a real pain.) I can if
needed strip the front added name that I added and the file is still the
same. I can archive and dump them after three years, because of the front
end added and sorting. They (the proprietary company) can continue to
change the file name as they wish but I can still maintain some sanity.
Thank you,
Paul D
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis
McGrath
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:57 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: SSub Declare date var
I do this too. The European standard is the only truly logical way to
specify dates. Like the metric system, I wish the whole world would get on
that statndard.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James
Bentley
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:01 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: SSub Declare date var
3. If you use date and time or date only as part of file name use YYYYMMDD
as the format instead of MMDDYYYY. It is a natural way of easily ordering
and grouping the filenames.
