Gregory, if your system is set to use US dates (mm/dd/yy) then
that'll be the format for rev's 'short system date'.
If you have a look at the 'formats' tab in the 'international' system
preferences, you'll see what your system is currently set to.
So if you know that the dates in your file are in the "dd/mm/yy"
format, and your system setting is for "mm/d/yy" you'll probably have
to swap the d and m fields yourself, before converting them to what
you want. So you could have this function in your app.
function convertDate pDate
set the itemdelimiter to "/"
put item 2 of pDate & "/" & item 1 of pDate & "/" item 3 of pDate
into nDate
convert nDate to abbrev english date
return nDate
end convertDate
Best,
Mark
On 14 Dec 2007, at 12:56, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hello everyone,
I sent out this question the other day but no takers. Hoping
someone might have an answer.
Regards,
Gregory
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hello everyone,
A date conversion problem has cropped up in one of my stacks. I have
a handler that starts with
set useSysemDate to true
I'm processing tab-delimited text files, so later in the handler I
have the line
convert the fourth item of aData[theDate] to abbrev English date
Now, the dates in the text file are in short format, dd/mm/yyyy,
e.g.,
10/12/2007 for Monday, December 10th, and I'm converting them to my
system's medium format in Leopard, which is Mon, Dec 10, 2007, but
what I'm getting is the incorrect date because it is coming out in
American format, mm/dd/yyyy or Fri, Oct 12, 2007.
Is this a Leopard problem? Because I never had it before I upgraded.
Dates are critical to my work, so any suggestions would be most
appreciated.
Incidentally, I'm using Revolution 2.8.1 Build 470 and Leopard 10.5.1
on an Intel iMac.
Regards,
Gregory
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