On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 09:06AM, Alec Carlson <email@hidden> wrote:
>The problem is that I have an NSDateFormatter connected to an NSTextEdit
>field in a GUI. The date/time the user enters is used to determine what
>database records I display. If the user enters ?Today? I expect that :
>dateFromString: would return either the current date/time as the best result
>for the natural language translation of ?today? or 11:59:59 PM as the whole
>time range of today. If I have to parse the text field myself in order to
>know the user entered ?today? then what?s the point of the translation ? As
>it is, if the user enters ?today? and it?s 5:00 PM then they only see
>records before 12:00 noon and nothing from noon to 5:00 PM. ?Today? doesn?t
>end at noon ? well maybe in some parts of the world it does, and in
>Cupertino, but not in Texas :)
You missed my point. "today" is just an alternate form to specify a date (and not a particular time). It makes sense the the time data is filled in with the midpoint of the day. As John pointed out in another reply to this thread, you may want to consider adding a time field to allow users to enter in specific times.
What exactly can the user enter in your existing text field? I'll assume they can enter both a date and time. If the user enters both, you're done. If they only enter in the date (to include using 'symbolic' names like "today"), then it will be up to you to provide the appropriate time data. Depending upon the queries you're doing, I could see where sometimes you'd want the first second of the day; other times the last second.
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Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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