Re: New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
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

New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread David Bovill
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

Re: New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread Mark Smith
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

Re: New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread David Bovill
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

Re: New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
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

Re: New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread Bill
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