At 12:20 PM +0100 5/18/2007, David Bovill wrote:
Ah - so that definitely is a bug :) Should be american date no? So there is
no way of taking a date in english - lets say Scottish format and converting
it as we cannot assume the user settings... ok so I guess I have to script
it. Funny I thought
I have been testing/working with the new date fixes in 2.8.1 and have a
problem with english dates - which I cannot convert properly:
put 20/4/02 into testDate
-- convert testDate from english date to dateItems
convert testDate from short english date to
David, are you sure you've understood what english denotes in
Revolution?
From the docs:
english
Used with the date and time functions to specify a date or time in
the format used in the United States.
So 20/4/02 is not an english date
Best,
Mark
On 18 May 2007, at 09:17, David
Ah - so that definitely is a bug :) Should be american date no? So there is
no way of taking a date in english - lets say Scottish format and converting
it as we cannot assume the user settings... ok so I guess I have to script
it. Funny I thought those yanks would of objected to being called
Ah - so that definitely is a bug :) Should be american date no? So there is
no way of taking a date in english - lets say Scottish format and converting
it as we cannot assume the user settings... ok so I guess I have to script
it. Funny I thought those yanks would of objected to being called
We call that sort of English the gringo English here but that is probably
also incorrect as I think the first use of gringo was for British soldiers.
But convert dateitems to the gringo date would be cool.
On 5/18/07 7:39 AM, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah - so that definitely