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Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs
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Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs


  • Subject: Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs
  • From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:00:07 -0800


On Dec 22, 2004, at 6:00 AM, 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.

Sorry, I misunderstood the question. There isn't a straightforward way to do this. If for some reason you can't simply use the user defaults, it sounds like you should probably have the user set their own preferences for your application.


mmalc
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