Vincent, I wrote my own class for parsing dates before RB even had one, and it's really not that hard. The difference being I was positive the software would always be run on systems using European standard dd.mm.yy / dd.mm.yyy date settings.
I'm on the road right now, but I can dig it up when I get back if you want (two weeks or so I'm afraid..) - Tom On 20/04/2007, at 8:17 AM, Vincent Kroll wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Am 19.04.2007 um 23:21 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> What you describe certainly seems like a bug, if you're *positive* >> that >> the German date settings on your system really are "dd.mm.yy" and not >> "dd.mm.yyyy". >> > > I'm very *positive* that the german date settings on my system really > are "dd.mm.yy". > I've checked the settings on MacOS X and WIN2K several times. > >> Of course, since ParseDate just calls through to the OS, it's >> possible >> that this is Apple's bug... but clearly either it's somebody's >> bug, or >> the German system date format wasn't what you think it was. > > Oups, I'll hope it's not a bug made by apple.<8) > Tomorrow I'll test a PPC OS X and later I'll try some toolbox calls > to verify this problem. > > -- > > thanks a lot > vincent > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
