Thanks Jacque. You may have missed the original post in this thread, so here's a quick recap.
I want the user to be able to set a preference that he/she wants his dates/times/displayed in any of the OS X formats of short, medium, long, and full that are set in the OS X System Prefernces. The problem is that the Livecode system date formats don't fully reflect the system preference settings on OS X (don't know about Windows). Some of that is because OS X has four date/time formats and LC only has three, but there's at least one instance where LC returns a date that is not in any of the OS X date formats. Here's a summary of what happens on my Mac running OS X 10.6.8: For dates: LC Short = OSX Short LC Long = OSX Full LC Abbrev = returns a date that is not in any of the OS X formats no LC format for OSX medium or long For times: LC Short = OSX Short LC Abbrev = OSX Short LC Long = OSX Medium no LC format for OSX Long or full So if a user tells me he wants his dates in OS X medium or long format, I can't find out what that is with LC code, same for an OS X long time. I'm hoping I will be able get hold of all the date/time formats with a shell command or with Applescript but no luck yet. I may have to ask the user to define the formats again with my ap ( that goes back to the other thread about duplicate object names!) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 7/2/11 11:16 AM, Pete wrote: > > But Im still faced with the problem of figuring out what the user's System >> Preference settings are for the short, medium, long, and full date and >> time >> formats. >> > > You can get their preferred format by either setting the usesystemdate to > true and then getting a date or time, or just by getting "the system date". > Then all the LiveCode date formats will reflect the user preference. For the > abbrev date, where the month is not fully expanded, a quick lookup in the > monthnames would fix that. Just replace the abbreviated month name with the > expanded one. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<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
