At 12:09 09.01.2003 -0500, you wrote:
IIRC 2003.01.09 would be the ISO normed date format, the date is written like this in China.Hi Brad...Thanks for responding. As half of what I'm doing is going to be distributed to Europe, and they format the date differently from the US (my system), will temporarily changing the itemDelimiter do anything to screw up either-side-of-the-Atlantic systems regarding date? For instance, put the short date (US) returns -- "1/9/2003" But is there a chance that this could be something like -- "2003/9/1" somewhere else, or maybe something different?
On a German system the date format is like this:
put (the short date)
-- "09.01.2003"
Why would you want to do labourous and difficult calculations like this? lingo has that comfortable date() data type, just doMaybe I should make a linear list out of the items in the short date and search for the one that has a length of 4? Would it always be 4, i.e. could some far off place like Lesotho, Belarus or the Canary Islands return 03 instead of 2003?
put the systemdate
-- date( 2003, 1, 9 )
or
put (the systemdate).year
-- 2003
put (the systemdate).month
-- 1
put (the systemdate).day
-- 9
regards
daniel plaenitz
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