Re: Changing current date format
Re: Changing current date format
- Subject: Re: Changing current date format
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:37:52 +0100
OK OK I think I'll stay with 20.01.2014... :-)
Thanks Shane, that's great code.
Emmanuel
On Jan 20, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2014, at 5:15 pm, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> One reason could be that with this old stuff you don't have to know the computer's locale settings.
>>
>> In other words, this kind of line makes a robust localized month:
>>
>> ----
>> word ((get current date)'s month as integer) of "Janvier Février etc." -- here the francophone version
>> ----
>
> FWIW, the handler I posted can accommodate this pretty simply:
>
> on formatDate:theDate usingFormat:formatString
> if class of theDate is date then set theDate to my makeNSDateFrom:theDate
> set theFormatter to current application's NSDateFormatter's new()
> theFormatter's setLocale:(current application's NSLocale's localeWithLocaleIdentifier:"fr") -- extra line to set locale
> theFormatter's setDateFormat:formatString
> set theString to theFormatter's stringFromDate:theDate
> return theString as text
> end formatDate:usingFormat:
>
> Called by:
>
> use theLib : script "<name of lib>"
> use scripting additions
>
> theLib's formatDate:(current date) usingFormat:"ddMMMYY"
> --> "20janv.14"
> theLib's formatDate:((current date) + 12 * days) usingFormat:"dd MMMM YY"
> --> "01 février 14"
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>
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