> On 24 Mar 2018, at 7:23 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Apparently he submitted a pull request last year for what seems like a very 
> nice solution, using formatting strings:
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5433 
> <https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5433>
> 
> This was per this BZ request:
> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18150 
> <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18150>
> 
> Not sure what happened to that.  Seems like it would be a great option.

Basically that PR is something I did on a weekend that wasn’t really on the 
radar. I got interested because I was doing the AWS script library so was 
working with ISO dates. Anyway, we had some discussion internally about whether 
we should expose ICU date formatting strings rather than continue with the ones 
described by the dateFormat (which is what I did in my PR). The advantage or 
ICU strings is that many languages use them so the chance of copy/paste from 
somewhere online doing what you want is pretty high. However because the 
dateFormat exists we weren’t overly sure how to proceed there and so we moved 
on ;-)

Cheers

Monte
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