Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs
Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs
- Subject: Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs
- From: Ben Dougall <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:00:55 +0000
On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 12:46 am, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
On Dec 21, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Ben Dougall wrote:
how can i display particular date elements in the style of the user's
prefs?
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/
ObjC_classic/Classes/NSUserDefaults.html>
See, for example, NSDateFormatString
sorry to be a thicky but i can't see how that'd get various sets of
date elements -- i'm trying to work out how to get a preferred format
for different combinations of date elements. how can i get the
preferred format for, for example, the full day name(%A) and the day
number of month(%e) and the full month name(%B) as the user would want
to see those date elements? is there a way to say "what's the preferred
format for this combination of elements: %e %B %A ?" (or other
combinations) and get back the format "%A, %e %B" or "%A, %B %e" or
whatever depending on how the user would like it -- based on the
international date pref settings.
or, if not, are there labels for various combinations of date elements
which can be used to get the preferred format of the already
established various combinations? (i can see there's
NSShortDateFormatString "31/10/01" and NSShortTimeDateFormatString
"31-Jan-01 1:30 PM." and NSTimeDateFormatString "Sunday, January 01,
2001 23:00:00 Pacific Standard Time." but am hoping for more)
at the moment i do want to find out the preferred format for the %e %B
%A date elements, but am asking a more general version of the question
because i can see myself wanting other combinations later. but i would
be happy to find a way to format just %e %B %A according to prefs now.
any ideas?
thanks, ben.
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