Hi Pete, i do not know if this is a bug, but i am doing this all the time. I am working with german date format settings and have to convert the date from system date to english date, before converting to date items.
Regards, Matthias Am 04.02.2012 um 23:33 schrieb Pete: > I just ran into what is either a bad misunderstanding on my part or a bug. > > I am using the following statement to get the current date in dateitems > format > > convert the system date to dateitems > put it into myDate > > Works fine on my Mac (I'm in the USA) > > People outside of the USA are reporting problems beta testing my > SQLiteAdmin program because it thinks it is an expired demo and the > expiration date it repots is garbage, specifically "//30". > > I changed the date format in my System Preferences Language and Text > preference to Canada, and sure enough, now the same statements return empty > instead of valid dateitems. > > According to the dictionary "if you use the system keyword, the user's > current system preferences are used to format the date or time". So why > does my code only work if I set my region to United States? > > I have already fixed this by using the english keyword instead of system > (which is kind of ironic since the english date is an American one, not an > English one), but is this a bug? > > -- > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode