Re: working with dates

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 <mathk.sue@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <kel@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
>
>
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