For some reason I didn't think to test with a style that uses a two digit year. It works as advertised with the short style. The docs say "The earliest date that can be denoted by a two-digit year specifier". I guess that since the medium and long styles don't have a "two-digit year specifier" associated with them it can't know my "09" isn't supposed to mean 0009. I'm probably just making excuses now but the term "specifiers" seems to be specific (no pun intended) to the pre 10.4 behaviour. From 10.4 onwards we seem to have "format patterns".
Regardless of semantics, I read the description numerous times and never once realised that "specifier" had nothing to do with the input. Should I file a documentation bug or is the current description of that method perfectly clear to everyone else? Which makes me now ask, how does everyone else parse unpredictable user input? Do I just try one format after another until I get a non-null date (and hope the interpreted date was what the user meant) or do I go back to the "not recommended" natural language formatting? Apologies if I was (am?) just being dense! Matt _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
