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From: Faheem Ahmed Khan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:20 AM
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Subject: Date Controls
Hi,
We are planning for a date control which would show up dates/time in any
chracter. Now, how do we find out how many character
Hi Faheem,
Date/time formatting is more complex than you might initially expect. For
example, AM/PM are not used throughout the world. Neither is the Gregorian
calendar (like the one we use in the USA). Sunday is not always the first
day of the week. And so on.
In addition, the number of bytes t
Let's see: Could it, for instance, show the date
in the Hebrew calendar and the time in hours and
halakim?
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we have a c/c++ library and java classes that might be interesting here:
icu (icu4c) provides a lot of locale information.
see http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/localeexplorer
and http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
the java classes, together with what is in the jdk, are simi
On date and time formatting:
The forthcoming ISO TR 14652 can handle data formats in various ways,
including non-gregorian calendar systems like Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew
and Arabic calenders.
Check it out at http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20 and see under
the current draft for 14652. There is
The Israeli locale has the Gregorian date and time is in hours, minutes and
seconds. Israeli Standard SI 1748.
Jony
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thank you all for your help and suggestions.
thanx again.
-Faheem
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 12:12 PM
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Subject: Re: FW: Date Controls
Hi Faheem,
Date/time formatting is
> From: Faheem Ahmed Khan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> We are planning for a date control which would show up dates/time in any
> chracter. Now, how do we find out how many characters does a date in each
> language take up?
What do you mean by "a date (or time) in each language"?
For example,
Before people get either excited or dismayed by these two drafts, one
should note that they are simply drafts: it is by no means assured that
they will ever be approved, or used if approved.
Mark
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>
> On date and time formatting:
>
> The forthcoming ISO TR 14652 can ha
I fear that, perhaps, we have strayed a bit in our discussion.
A date or date/time control has fewer general issues than creating the
display string.
Generally, a drop-down list type control will have to worry about order
(year-month-day, day-month-year, month-day-year) and sizing of the
control
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