Re: Simple Date-Time Format Question...
Re: Simple Date-Time Format Question...
- Subject: Re: Simple Date-Time Format Question...
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:53:15 +0100
On 25 Apr 2007, at 14:22, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Total tangent here, but ... The UK date comes out "April 25"? I
thought that was an Americanism and the UK form was "25 April".
Actually, that's an interesting observation, Mark.
System Preferences here displays the following sample dates:
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Full: Friday, 5 January 2007
Long: 5 January 2007
Medium: 5 Jan 2007
Short: 05/01/2007
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The date shown in my menu bar reflects the same formatting. However,
compare the above with the following results:
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tell "20070105" as «class isot» as date to ¬
{date:it, string:it as string, date string:date string, short date
string:short date string}
--> [listed vertically for greater legibility]:
date: date "Friday, January 5, 2007 00:00:00"
string: "Friday, January 5, 2007 00:00:00"
date string: "Friday, January 5, 2007"
short date string: "5/1/07"
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<gratuitous rant>
This is, of course, quite outrageous. I realise that we poor cousins
have long since traded our collective wastebaskets for trash, and
(computationally speaking, at least) our traditional spellings for
the reformed versions introduced by Noah Webster. Could this date
behaviour be a further step in the insidious (yet apparently
relentless) process of trying to sneak a few more stars onto the
Union flag?* And why, if I make an incidental contribution to a
discussion, does it have to be 2¢? And am I the only one around here
who subscribes to the conspiracy theory? ...
* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state>
</gratuitous rant>
;-)
---
kai
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