Re: Japanese dates problem

2005-12-30 Thread Ron
Hi Sarah, I imagine the long system date, which includes the name of the day and month, is in unicode since the names are in Japanese. If tNow is indeed unicode then it may help to put unidecode(tNow,Japanese) into tNow. I don't have access to a Japanese system right this second, but you

Re: Japanese dates problem

2005-12-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I imagine the long system date, which includes the name of the day and month, is in unicode since the names are in Japanese. If tNow is indeed unicode then it may help to put unidecode(tNow,Japanese) into tNow. I don't have access to a Japanese system right this second, but you could try

Japanese dates problem

2005-12-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I have received some error reports from Japanese users of my Pic-a-POD program and they all get an error at the same point. Here is the script snippet: convert tNow from long system date to seconds subtract 86400 from tNow with the error report showing: Type: