Sounds familiar. Basically I ...
put the date into tdate
set the itemdel to "/"
put item 1 of tdate into tmonth
put item 2 of tdate into tday
put item 3 of tdate into tyear
put tday&"/"&tmonth&"/"&tyear into tdateout
or
convert the time to dateItems
this gives a comma separated list of items which are
year,month,day,hour,minute,second,day of week
You can then build you own date format. As far as I know altering the date
format in the Control Panels doesn't alter the way that Metacard reads the
date.
Just for your info the "Sunday Times Newspaper" had an article on date
formats recently, citing numerous 'standard' formats for different countries
and industries.
I can't remember who said "Standards are the backbone of computing... every
company should have their own." Bu they had a point.
Regards
Gary Rathbone
on 6/2/01 6:04 PM, Gregory Lypny at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> How can I get MetaCard to handle dates in an international format,
> that is, as day/month/year, rather than American format (month/day/year)?
> I've got the Date control panel on my iMac set to treat dates as the
> former, but MetaCard is handling them as if they were the latter.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
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