in a related note…
> Is the internet date in a consistent format in every country? That
> is, except for the spelling of the day and month names, is the format
> always the same?
I believe the whole rest of the IT world solved this a long time ago.. and I've
had an enhancement request in for literally a decade…. to have the engine date
function auto output the standard date format in the form of
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SEC TZ # where TZ is picked form the local system
I'm off line at the moment so I don't have the RFC number for that standard.
Yes, I know Richard will respond "The beauty of LC is you can get this out
yourself" (hehe)
but isn't it time that we have this output as a native form? of course that
still requires you to convert this to date items then gets you an array you can
depend on for the day and month names… you would have to look those up. And
ideally "the monthnames" and "the weekdaynames" would be localized
automatically by the engine if there was a "my language is" option in the LC
preferences.
select: "French:
output:
Lundi
Mardi
etc.
BR
On 11/1/16, 4:24 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin"
<use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of ambassa...@fourthworld.com>
wrote:
With the Internet date, though, the Dictionary notes that it follows RFC
2822, which IIFC only supports US English date element names, so I think
it should be unaffected by the useSystemDate.
If anyone using a non-US English system can double-check the format
after setting the useSystemDate to true it would be helpful to confirm that.
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