This would need to integrated in WOF as WOString and WOTextField need to know about it.

Pierre
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On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:23, Lachlan Deck wrote:

On 29/01/2008, at 6:47 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:

Having NSTimestampFormatter as a "symbol translating sub-class" would ease the pain of transition for many.
Yeah, this is what I'm proposing as well ... I feel Pierre's pain with not wanting to rewrite and maintain deprecated code, but I fear WO becoming what everyone hates about Tapestry, which is that it goes through huge breaking revisions every release. There is a large base of legacy apps, and especially if there are relatively straightforward deprecation routes, it would be better to not break than to break, I think (this is obviously subject to a religious debate, I suspect). I'm especially wary of breaking changes that just break semantics rather than syntax. In this case, it's breaking the interpretation of random strings inside of WODs, which will make for a really annoying fix. Alternatively, I suppose someone could write a conversion app to convert all the old style into new style, but that only partially addresses the issue.

Most of the symbols have a SDF equivalent, as seen below. And the ones that don't wouldn't be difficult to provide functionality for by subclassing SDT I would think (which still excludes api compatibility with NSTimestampFormatter's other methods).

I'd be happy to whip this up later in the week and contribute to Wonder if people want it.

with regards,
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Lachlan Deck

NSF     SDF     Description

%%      %       a '%' character
%a      EEE     abbreviated weekday name
%A      EEEE    full weekday name
%b      MMM     abbreviated month name
%B      MMMM    full month name
%c              shorthand for "%X %x", the locale format for date and time
%d      dd      day of the month as a decimal number (01-31)
%e      d       same as %d but does not print the leading 0 for days 1 through 9
%F      SSS     milliseconds as a decimal number (000-999)
%H      HH      hour based on a 24-hour clock as a decimal number (00-23)
%I      hh      hour based on a 12-hour clock as a decimal number (01-12)
%j      DDD     day of the year as a decimal number (001-366)
%m      MM      month as a decimal number (01-12)
%M      mm      minute as a decimal number (00-59)
%p      a       AM/PM designation for the locale
%S      ss      second as a decimal number (00-59)
%w              weekday as a decimal number (0-6), where Sunday is 0
%x              date using the date representation for the locale
%X              time using the time representation for the locale
%y      yy      year without century (00-99)
%Y      yyyy    year with century (such as 1990)
%Z      zzz[z]  time zone name (such as "Europe/Paris" or "PST")
%z Z time zone offset from GMT in hours and minutes (such as "+0200" or "-1200")

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