Speaking of ICONV, anyone noticed that `DWx' conversions are fubar. For example, the `W' token gets ignored on ICONV and you can't reciprocally ICONV the day name of week as below using DWA. Also converting oconv/iconv using `DW' (leaving the `A'/'B' off) converts the day of the week to the day of January, current year. e.g. Tuesday gets turned into Monday 2^nd Jan where with the `W' token I would expect it to convert to maybe convert to the first Tuesday of the year.
This, along with my other gripe of not easily handling ISO standard dates (yyyy-mm-ddTHH:mm:ssZ) it seems like an incompleteness to an otherwise excellent function. Stuart X = OCONV(DATE(),'DWA') Y = ICONV(X,'DWA') Z = STATUS() CRT X,'>':Y:'<',Z ;* => TUESDAY_><_1 X = OCONV(DATE(),'DW') Y = ICONV(X,'DW') Z = STATUS() CRT X,'>':Y:'<',Z,OCONV(Y,'DWDMBYL') ;* => 2_>13882<_0_Mon 02 Jan 2006 END ______________________________________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Ray Wurlod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 11 June 2006 07:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse Internal Date Blackout See http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Date_Conversion_With_ICONV for a discussion of how ICONV deals with wholly numeric external dates. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this email in error please notify the Spotless IS Support Centre (+61 3 9269 7555) immediately, who will advise further action. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer related viruses. ********************************************************************** ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
