On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 05:54:32 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Davis, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I hate to interrupt but wouldn't it make more sense to have a format string
> field somewhere in the system that the user would specify (with a default of
> m/d/y)? For example, it would interpret m.d.y or d.m.y or any other system
> based on the three tokens (d, m, and y).
>
> This wouldn't to be that hard to implement and it isn't too criptic for a
> reason user (reasonable being someone with a few months experience with
> using computers).
>
> I guess what I'm suggesting is (forgive me if it already exists) a
> properties box for the QIF import/export routines. That box would have the
> field I mentioned and anything else that might vary.
This would be valuable at output time.
At input time, we can infer a lot about the date format by looking at the
population of dates, and in particular the ranges for each "field."
Being able to configure some stuff interactively can hopefully come
automatically when the configurator portion starts working. (It crashes
on me at this point.)
--
Would I be an optimist or a pessimist if I said my bladder was half
full?
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