One thing I have been thinking about is that SimpleDateFormat is
documented to NOT be thread safe. NSTimestampFormatter has no such
documentation. Is has been my habit for some years now to hold
formatter instances at the application level (e.g. for bindings like
formatter = application.formatters.longDateFormatter; where
formatters is an NSDictionary in Application). If
NSTimestampFormatter is not thread safe, I at least have not noticed
it. I _haven't_ used them in a localized setting.
If you have been doing a similar thing, this is something to be aware
of.
Chuck
On Nov 22, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Q wrote:
With NSTimestampFormatter being deprecated in WO 5.4, and the
recommended alternative being to use SimpleDateFormat, there is the
slightly annoying matter of WOString's dateformat binding taking a
POSIX strftime() style date format string, and SimpleDateFormat
using ISO format datetime format. Or so I originally though.
Much to my surprise, NSTimestampFormatter has this little gem of
information in the documentation:
Alternatively, you can specify the pattern using Sun's date pattern
specifiers. See Sun's documentation for the
java.text.SimpleDateFormat class for more information.
Ie. You can use the ISO datetime format that SimpleDateFormat uses
in your dateformat binding.
So the following WOString bindings both do the same thing:
dateformat = "%a %d %b %Y";
dateformat = "EEE dd MMM yyyy";
Note to self: Sometimes it helps to read ALL the documentation.
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