> On Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 11:15:48 BST, rastersoft
<ras...@rastersoft.com> wrote: >> Pass "%x" for the format string.
> I used that, but the year is printed with only two digits... Also, what
> I really want is the date in the format "March 5, 2018", not "03/05/18",
> but it seems that only %c does that, but adds a lot of extra data that I
> don't want like the time zone.
As Christian Hergert suggests, DateTime is very useful. This works for me:
void main () {
var date = new DateTime.now_local();
print (date.format("%B %e, %Y"));
}
That prints March 28, 2018 today. There are a whole load of formatting options
to play around with
though:https://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.DateTime.format.html
Regards,
Al
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