Two date questions...
I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system
weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any
non-English system users help me out?
[1] Date format convert...
on mouseUp
put line 6 of the abbrev syste
Two date questions...
I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system
weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any
non-English system users help me out?
[1] Date format convert...
on mouseUp
put line 6 of the abbrev syste
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> Two date questions...
>
> I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates
> by using dateItems, system weekdayNames and system
> monthNames. As I only have an English-based system,
> could any non-English system users help me out?
>
> [1] Date format convert...
>
Hi Hugh
Two date questions...
I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems,
system weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an
English-based system, could any non-English system users help me out?
[1] Date format convert...
on mouseUp
put line 6 of the abbrev
English-speaking, but using Australian formats:
[1] - yes, I get a valid date: 2004,6,1,2,0,0,3
[2] - Saturday is the last line of system weekDayNames although I have
heard that this is not always the case in Australian systems.
But, you can always identify weekends using the last item of the
da
English-speaking, but using Australian formats:
[1] - yes, I get a valid date: 2004,6,1,2,0,0,3
[2] - Saturday is the last line of system weekDayNames although I have
heard that this is not always the case in Australian systems.
But, you can always identify weekends using the last item of the
da
I am bemused (and initially quite confused) that "english date" returns
a non-english (that is, US ) format date, particularly odd for an app
designed in Scotland! (for MetaCard compatibility perhaps?)
And aren't Friday and Saturday the weekend for Arabic countries and
Israel, in which case the
Actually the history of the english date goes right back to HyperCard. In
most cases your best bet is to use the system modifier. The english modifier
actually does nothing unless you have useSystemDate set to true and I assume
is only there for HC compatibility.
PS, good to see another Australia