Thanks alot!! Works like a charm
Jim
Ken Krugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:47275@palm-dev-forum...
>
> At 12:00am -0700 01-04-26, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >Subject: DateTemplateToAscii Sample Code?
> >From: "Jim Garozzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:28:22 -0500
> >X-Message-Number: 49
> >
> >Has anyone use this function?? If so, I was wondering if can see how
> >someone has utilized this function. It's new for SDK 3.5 and am new too!
> >I'm real curious how a person would call this function and use the
results.
>
> It's most useful when you're doing special things with dates, versus
> just getting the user prefs settings for the date format and then
> passing that to DateToAscii.
>
> For example, if you need the short name of the 12th month ("Dec" for
> the US locale), then you could call:
>
> Char buffer[dateStringLength+1];
> DateTemplateToAscii("^2r", december, 0, 0, bufffer, sizeof(buffer));
>
> or if you wanted to get the abbreviation for Wednesday ("W" for the
> US locale) then you could call:
>
> DateTemplateToAscii("^1s", april, 25, 2001, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
>
> since 4/25/2001 is a Wednesday. Obviously this could be used in a
> loop to get each day of week name, starting from Sunday.
>
> Or if you needed to format a date in the ISO standard ("2001-04-26")
> you could do that with:
>
> Char buffer[11];
> DateTemplateToAscii("^4l-^3z-^0z", month, day, year, buffer, 11);
>
> -- Ken
>
> Ken Krugler
> TransPac Software, Inc.
> <http://www.transpac.com>
> +1 530-470-9200
>
>
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