Thanks Bob. These examples are all very handy to have. Added to the wiki!! Just
kidding, I do think we need a wiki somewhere for these kinds of code snippets
but I’m not offering to build it (this year). We’ll have to see how bored I am
next year, or, hopefully, someone else will beat me to it.
On 14/07/2023 19:45, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Because I’m not that good with regular expressions and the format function. :-)
But you example has one too many close parens.
Oops - I got caught out copying / pasting again :-(
Yes, of course it should have been
put format("%s-%02d
On 14/07/2023 16:13, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
I beg to differ. Again, Livecode is a way to build both the tools and the
product made by those tools. Livecode is NOT a collection of every conceivable
tool for everything everyone wants to do. No language is.
I think the LC dev team
Because I’m not that good with regular expressions and the format function. :-)
But you example has one too many close parens.
Also, for SQL Date I do not thing UK or US matters. It’s -MM-DD everywhere,
isn’t it?
Also, I assumed that the localization of the LC engine would take into accou
On 14/07/2023 16:34, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
CASE "sql date"
put item 1 of theDate & "-" & \
format("%02d",item 2 of theDate) & "-" & \
format("%02d",item 3 of theDate) into theDate
break
Why not just
put format("%s-%02d-%02d",
Hmmm… I read the enhancement request. I’m still in the dark though on how to
get to "2023-07-14 08:30:00" from “7/14/23” using format strings. Here’s my
solution for those who do not want to download the masterLibrary. Given these,
what else do you need?
FUNCTION formatDate theDate, theFormat
We actually do with LCB libraries (Icon SVG Library is one example), but with
the caveat that they are not as performant as LCS code in many cases (compare
the LCS and LCB implementations of JSON for example). LCS libraries are doable
too. Just make everything internal private/script local and
I beg to differ. Again, Livecode is a way to build both the tools and the
product made by those tools. Livecode is NOT a collection of every conceivable
tool for everything everyone wants to do. No language is.
I think the LC dev team is far more useful to everyone if they focus on
completing
Which makes me think, it would be nice if we could have plug-in code modules.
Essentially a faceless widget that could be called to perform some sort of
action (with parameters). Completely encapsulated. Or is that “bat crazy” as
Mike would say 😊
> On 14 Jul 2023, at 12:08 pm, Paul Dupuis via u
Yes to this. I have, lot so many developer, a set of functions to
translate to and from this date format.
We can all write our own or use ones others have provided, but it would
be nice if this was built into the language.
On 7/13/2023 10:59 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote:
Jacque
Jacque: Nice! Particularly as a demonstration of the variety of ways to achieve
an objective in LC and different coding styles. I’ll add the snippets to my own
version.
The ISO date (aka sql date) format is my favourite because it avoids the
ambiguity of the English/American ordering of day, mo
Neville Smythe wrote:
> I seem to have hallucinated that the built-in convert handler recognised
> the ISO date and dateTime formats (-MM-DD, -MM-DD
> hh:mm:ss+-http://hh.ss, etc) but I must have written my own conversion
> routines in a former life.
> But one would have to ask… Why doesn’
On 7/13/23 3:19 AM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote:
I seem to have hallucinated that the built-in convert handler recognised the
ISO date and dateTime formats (-MM-DD, -MM-DD hh:mm:ss+-hh.ss, etc) but
I must have written my own conversion routines in a former life.
But one would
Thanks Bob. Sounds very useful. How does one access (or locate) the master
library?
Cheers,
Mark
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 13, 2023, at 4:24 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I wrote a formatDate function years ago that called this "sql date". Maybe I
> should rename it “IS
I wrote a formatDate function years ago that called this "sql date". Maybe I
should rename it “ISO Date” or just add a case for it. There is also an “sql
time” format in the function formatTime. This way you can put format date(the
date, “sql date”) && formative(the time, “sql time”) to get an s
Yikes. I sent off something before seeing this. Well, maybe it is helpful.
And it was scathing! Well, not really. I don't know how to do scathing and
have no inclination, anyway.
Dar
On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> disregard, after looking more closely at his email da
We might be saying the same thing, but I'm not sure.
on mouseUp
get the short date
convert it to seconds
put it & tab & it/3600 mod 24
end mouseUp
gives me this:
1374127200 6
I'm in MDT (Rocky Mountains), somebody in California might take those same
seconds and convert to a short
disregard, after looking more closely at his email dar is correct
completely.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> it gets midnight UTC, livecode changing the date FROM the time zone
> independent seconds gives you time zone differences.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM
it gets midnight UTC, livecode changing the date FROM the time zone
independent seconds gives you time zone differences.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
> I think it is the UTC seconds thing. I think that changing a date to
> seconds will get midnight of the day for the curr
I think it is the UTC seconds thing. I think that changing a date to seconds
will get midnight of the day for the current time zone. Somebody in an more
westerly timezone might see those seconds and the date will be earlier.
If it is on only one computer and the timezone will not change, the
Hi Tom,
Am 18.07.2013 um 17:56 schrieb Thomas McGrath III :
> That's weird. I still get the 16th. Can anyone else confirm the 15th? (not
> doubting you Dar)
> I might have to change this then…
I think you can simply add two hours (2*600) to the resulting seconds and are
safe :-)
> Tom
>
> --
I do believe the seconds that are given at any time by livecode are
timezone agnostic (utc?) but livecode uses your system's settings to do
conversions.
For instance, the seconds livecode spits out for me at eleven pm of the
15th in the central standard timezone would put the same second number as
That's weird. I still get the 16th. Can anyone else confirm the 15th? (not
doubting you Dar)
I might have to change this then…
Tom
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On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:39 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath I
On Jul 17, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> I am converting the short date (08/16/13) to seconds and I get 1376625600
When I converted it back earlier today, I got the 15th. I guess there is a
problem related to timezones or something.
Consider NAMEmmdd. It is easy to pars
Oh cool. Looked it up! And yep, they do! So its a tie!
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> GMTA? Did that mean I won?!?!?! *cough*
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> Mike-
>>
>> Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:53:41 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Could work u
GMTA? Did that mean I won?!?!?! *cough*
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Mike-
>
> Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:53:41 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Could work up a simple regex and use matchtext instead to remove the
> issue
> > entirely also.
>
> Ha! GMTA
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
> m
Mike-
Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:53:41 PM, you wrote:
> Could work up a simple regex and use matchtext instead to remove the issue
> entirely also.
Ha! GMTA
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:03:26 PM, you wrote:
> The reason I ask is I am making filenames by merging a name like
> "Thomas" or "Tom" with the date converted to seconds as in
> "Thomas1376625600.txt" or "Tom1376625600.txt"
Regex to the rescue:
get matchtext(tFileName, "([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]
t the length
> of the seconds, and if it is eleven then modify your chunk stuff.
>
>
> Craig Newman
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Dar Scott
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:21 pm
> Subject: Re: Convert date to seconds
>
>
> Wi
: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 9:21 pm
Subject: Re: Convert date to seconds
Will the create of file names be in the same time zone as the reader of file
names?
On Jul 17, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> I am converting the short date (08/16/13) to seconds and I get 1376625600
>
> My
Will the create of file names be in the same time zone as the reader of file
names?
On Jul 17, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> I am converting the short date (08/16/13) to seconds and I get 1376625600
>
> My question is "Is the converted seconds always that many digits when
> con
Since its the number of seconds since.. I think 1970, there will always be
that many digits at least until the odometer rolls up to 99 + 1.
Plenty of breathing space there.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> I am converting the short date (08/16/13) to seconds
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