Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Sean Wilson
Is there a dot-syntax way of getting the year, month, and day? I can get it by parsing _system.date(), but the year/month/day order depends on the system's country settings. put (the systemDate).day put (the systemDate).month put (the systemDate).year Also, is there a way to get the time in

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Luke Wigley
Hi Kerry , You can from a dateObject (which is in a standard format) to get the year/month/dayseconds from midnight. dateObj= (the systemDate) or dateObj = date(2004, 12, 31) or dateObj = date(20041231) or if you want to include hours/minutes/seconds, it seems that you have to set the

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Cole Tierney
At 11:34 AM +1200 9/22/05, Sean Wilson wrote: -- with some trimming (leading/trailing whitespace, fractional seconds): put framesToHMS( (the systemDate).seconds, 1, 0, 0 ) Great tip! I was just about to post a big old ugly lingo one-liner (mostly as a joke!). Oh what the heck (watch for line

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 01:34 schrieb Sean Wilson: the systemDate seems to be another of the omissions in the current round of docs but remains *much* more useful than most of the other date/time format offerings. not only it is missing in the docs, but also is this extremely useful global

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Nelson
_movie.systemDate() Regards, Daniel Alex da Franca wrote: Am 22.09.2005 um 01:34 schrieb Sean Wilson: the systemDate seems to be another of the omissions in the current round of docs but remains *much* more useful than most of the other date/time format offerings. not only it is