Hi sven I read the class comments in fact :) and now rereading and your answer I start to understand.
What the class comments did not convey to me was that you have to follow the 2001 example. The "#reference timestamp" was confusing to me. I could not undersrtand why you where talking about a method (that does not exist in fact). Then I could not understand how the numbering of the component of the example where related to the example you give below. And I can tell you that I browse the class side accessing but I could not find a simple date pattern. By the way using a number higher than 12 for days could help identifying the day from the month. And now I see that as I expected we can also pass a date and not be forced to pass a (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '03/02/2001') format: Date today. If you are interested I can try to propose a better class comment. And BTW I already used the formatter but more than one year ago. Stef On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stef, > >> On 22 Oct 2017, at 17:45, Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi sven >> >> I'm confused >> >> ft := ZTimestampFormat fromString: '02/11/2017'. >> ft format: DateAndTime now >> >> produces 10/11/1017060986 >> >> While I do not want time but just the date. >> and the date is wrong. >> >> So I will do it manually but I found sad that ZTimestampFormat cannot >> handle just handling days. >> I could then pass also a date and it would not ask for nanoseconds. >> >> Stef > > ZTimestampFormat works with example based format specifications. This works > by making each component unique, using a sequential number. Consult the class > comment for a full explanation. The class side's #formatSpecifications lists > the tokens that are understood and their meaning. > > To go back to your issue, The year is the first component, written as 2001, > the month the third and the day the second. So you probably want to do: > > (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '03/02/2001') format: DateAndTime now. > > => '22/10/2017' > > HTH, > > Sven > > >
