R.H. wrote:
> A bigger problem is that the date can be ambiguous. How to know if a
> month and day is actually a month or day using mm/dd/yyyy instead of
> dd/mm/yyyy? You need to know the source of the date string to be able
> to convert it to the local settings in such cases. And no system will
> tell you that.
LiveCode's dateFormat function will help with at least that part of it:
Use the dateFormat function to obtain the general format of the
date for further processing. The dateFormat function returns a
string containing one or more formatting incantations, each of
which describes a part of the requested date format. The
possible incantations are as follows:
%a Abbreviated weekday name: the abbreviated day of the week,
as reported by the weekdayNames function
%A Full weekday name: the full day of the week, as reported
by the weekdayNames function
%b Abbreviated month name: the abbreviated month name, as
reported by the monthNames function
%B Full month name: the full month name, as reported by the
monthNames function
%d Day of the month: the day of the month as a number
%m Month number: the number of the month
%y Two-digit year: the year as a two-digit number
%Y Four-digit year: This incantation indicates the year as
a four-digit number (including the century)
%w Day of the week: A number between 1 and 7
Note: The dateFormat differs from other date/time functionality
in that the default is to return information relative to the
system locale. i.e. the dateFormat is equivalent to the system
dateFormat
https://livecode.com/resources/api/#livecode_script/dateformat
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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