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Hello,
I'd like to see how to control the formatting and storage of dates. I'm in the UK so would like to store my dates in yyyy-mm-dd format, but display them as dd-mm-yyyy; or as '12 December 2006' sometimes as well. I've looked at the Date class, but apart from the printFormat: method (which I can't see an explanation of the format) I can't see any easy way of ensuring that squeak converts my dd-mm-yyyy input into a nice ISO yyyy-mm-dd format. Could anyone suggest some classes/code to look at? Thanks very much, Kel. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners |
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Have a look at #yyyymmdd
And the test: testPrinting self assert: date mmddyyyy = '6/2/1973'; assert: date yyyymmdd = '1973-06-02'; assert: (date printFormat: #(3 1 2 $! 2 1 1)) = '1973!2!Jun'. HTH 2006/12/12, Kel Graham <[hidden email]>: > Hello, > > I'd like to see how to control the formatting and storage of dates. I'm in > the UK so would like to store my dates in yyyy-mm-dd format, but display > them as dd-mm-yyyy; or as '12 December 2006' sometimes as well. I've looked > at the Date class, but apart from the printFormat: method (which I can't see > an explanation of the format) I can't see any easy way of ensuring that > squeak converts my dd-mm-yyyy input into a nice ISO yyyy-mm-dd format. > > Could anyone suggest some classes/code to look at? > > > Thanks very much, > Kel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > Beginners mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners |
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Ah - thank you!
It took me a while to realise what the second half of the printFormat: statement was saying, but got there in the end. Also, thanks for pointing out the tests in Kernel-Chronology-Tests.. I kept looking at the Date class, never realising that there were lots of tests in the next category! A quick use of Method Finder helped me find them.. Cheers, Kel. On 12/12/06, Mathieu SUEN <[hidden email]> wrote: Have a look at #yyyymmdd -- Kel Graham www.savvant.com [hidden email] _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners |
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yes great.
that how you can work farst. :) You can use the short cut like alt-m alt-n alt-b alt-shift-n(depend on wheter you are in windows or mac) and so on to find your piece of code faster. Loook at the menu to find the meaning. Math 2006/12/12, Kel Graham <[hidden email]>: > Ah - thank you! > > It took me a while to realise what the second half of the printFormat: > statement was saying, but got there in the end. > > Also, thanks for pointing out the tests in Kernel-Chronology-Tests.. I kept > looking at the Date class, never realising that there were lots of tests in > the next category! A quick use of Method Finder helped me find them.. > > Cheers, > Kel. > > > On 12/12/06, Mathieu SUEN <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Have a look at #yyyymmdd > > > > And the test: > > > > testPrinting > > > > self > > assert: date mmddyyyy = '6/2/1973'; > > assert: date yyyymmdd = '1973-06-02'; > > assert: (date printFormat: #(3 1 2 $! 2 1 1)) = > '1973!2!Jun'. > > > > HTH > > > > 2006/12/12, Kel Graham <[hidden email]>: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'd like to see how to control the formatting and storage of dates. I'm > in > > > the UK so would like to store my dates in yyyy-mm-dd format, but display > > > them as dd-mm-yyyy; or as '12 December 2006' sometimes as well. I've > looked > > > at the Date class, but apart from the printFormat: method (which I can't > see > > > an explanation of the format) I can't see any easy way of ensuring that > > > squeak converts my dd-mm-yyyy input into a nice ISO yyyy-mm-dd format. > > > > > > Could anyone suggest some classes/code to look at? > > > > > > > > > Thanks very much, > > > Kel. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Beginners mailing list > > > [hidden email] > > > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beginners mailing list > > [hidden email] > > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > > > -- > Kel Graham > www.savvant.com > [hidden email] > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > Beginners mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners |
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