User Date Formatter (was Re: table column with <date value> null placeholder)
User Date Formatter (was Re: table column with <date value> null placeholder)
- Subject: User Date Formatter (was Re: table column with <date value> null placeholder)
- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:08:01 -0500
On May 9, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
On 2005-05-06 17:06, Eric Friedman said:
Sean, I'm interested in your comment about date format as a user
preference. Of course Interface Builder's formatter wants me to
choose exactly one format string.
Yes, quite annoying.
I suppose what you say could be
done through user preferences, but I'm curious -- do a lot of folks go
to this trouble?
Lots do, lots don't; but you should. ;)
This snippit will get you started:
NSString* sdf = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:
NSDateFormatString];
NSDictionary* locale = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
dictionaryRepresentation];
[aDate descriptionWithCalendarFormat:sdf locale:locale];
Sadly, passing nil's to descriptionWithCalendarFormat does not get you
localised date strings.
I would LOVE for someone to point out an easier way to get a localised,
in-the-user's-format string from an NSDate.
Make a custom subclass of NSFormatter:
@interface UserDateFormatter: NSDateFormatter
@end
Drag that header file to IB so this class is available in your NIB.
@implementation UserDateFormatter
- (id) init
{
self = [super init];
if (self) {
[self setFormatString: [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
stringForKey: NSDateFormatString]];
}
return self;
}
@end
Attach the standard date formatter. Switch to outline view and tunnel
down through your UI until you find that date formatter (it will show
up there as a selectable item). Switch to custom class in the
inspector, and select your UserDateFormatter class.
Repeat for as many places you want to use the user date. You might
want to make another version that does the user short date format.
Done.
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
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