Re: [Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime (Michael Van Canneyt)
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Werner Pamler wrote: I just uploaded a new patch to bug tracker. The new version picks up Michael's suggestion of introducing a new FormatDateTimeEx function for the new format codes. Damn, I was rather hoping you'd go for the extra argument :) No sweat, I'll rework it, thanks for the contribution. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime (Michael Van Canneyt)
I just uploaded a new patch to bug tracker. The new version picks up Michael's suggestion of introducing a new FormatDateTimeEx function for the new format codes. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime
On Fri, 16 May 2014, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:19:15AM +0200, Werner Pamler wrote: In BugTracker, #0026168, I posted a patch to FormatDateTime which allows to use hour, minute, or second format codes in square brackets. Using new special characters instead of building on existing escape characters is incompatible. This could be remedied with a FormatDateTimeEx() or else a FormatDateTime(Fmt,date,AllowExtendedFormatting: Boolean = False) Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:19:15AM +0200, Werner Pamler wrote: > In BugTracker, #0026168, I posted a patch to FormatDateTime which allows > to use hour, minute, or second format codes in square brackets. Using new special characters instead of building on existing escape characters is incompatible. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime
In BugTracker, #0026168, I posted a patch to FormatDateTime which allows to use hour, minute, or second format codes in square brackets. If such codes are found in the format string the values of the corresponding quantitites do no longer overflow, but can grow beyond their usual limit of 24 (for hours) or 60 (for minutes and seconds). The idea behind that is that when adding or subtracting times the hours often become greater than 24, but there may be a wish to keep an hh:nn format without days. I need that feature in my current work with the fpspreadsheet date/time formats since Excel offers this [h]:mm:ss format string. Currently I have a patched version in the package, but it certainly would be better to have this feature in fpc/Lazarus generally. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
