Not sure about other platforms but the Mac lets you set the first day of the week in user preferences so I guess the most flexible thing to do would be to get hold of that setting and use it as a reference point.
Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:48 AM, zryip theSlug <zryip.thes...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Klaus on-rev <kl...@major.on-rev.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > when I query "the weekdaynames" I get > > Sunday > > Monday > > Tuesday > > etc. > > > > When I query "the system weekdaynames" I get > > Sonntag (Sunday) > > Montag > > Dienstag > > ... > > > > But in germany the first day of week is MONDAY? > > > > I am not sure if the function should also return the correct ORDER > > of the system weekday names? > > > > This makes it extremely hard to scripts proper mulit-language support > > in calendars etc... > > > > Or is this behaviour reliable? > > I mean will I ALWAYS get this order, no matter what the current system > > language is? Know what I mean? > > > > Any opinions? > > Hi Klaus, > > Same here. > > Here is the code I'm using for dealing with: > > function weekDayNamesList pFirstDayIsMonday > local tWeekdayNames > > put the abbr system weekdayNames into tWeekdayNames > if pFirstDayIsMonday then > put cr & line 1 of tWeekdayNames after tWeekdayNames > delete line 1 of tWeekdayNames > end if > > return tWeekDayNames > end weekDayNamesList > > > Best regards, > -- > -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8) > http://www.aslugontheroad.co.cc > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
