Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-15 Thread FlexibleLearning
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

Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-15 Thread Neville Smythe
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

RE: Non-English dates

2003-09-15 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-14 Thread Sarah
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

Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-12 Thread Klaus Major
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