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 18:19:27 +0000
- Ements: %e
On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 04:00 pm, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
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 el>> %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.
ok thanks. further thought, just want to check: are the standard date
format strings, in the user's preferred arrangement, available anywhere
somehow? -- that is the actual format strings themselves for the
established usual date formats?
thanks, ben.
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