Re: Strings and Timestamps
Re: Strings and Timestamps
- Subject: Re: Strings and Timestamps
- From: Ray Ackland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:26:25 +1300
Ari,
Sounds like you are wanting to format a string as a string - but in a
different format! Don't expect there to be an easy way of doing this.
Some possibilities though:
1) Try to turn the current string into a date, and then change that
date back into a string using a formatter
2) I would turn the attribute back into a NSTimestamp. For your fetch
spec, you can create a qualifier with the current time stamp giving it
a new NSTimestamp(). If you wanted to do the query on things that had
today's date (ie ignoring the time part of it) you can set these parts
to 0 using available methods - but don't ask me which ones, I just
remember that there are some around not what they are :|
Ray.
On 12/01/2004, at 15:10, Y.A.Espinoza wrote:
I've got a datetime column in my database. In my model, I internally
call it a String and leave it datetime externally. The reason I do
this is because I use a fetch spec to call up today's event: Date =
"current_date". I don't know that the datetime equivalent of that is,
so by calling the column a string, I can get around it and the fetch
spec works.
Anyway, I want dates to appear as "Monday, Jan 1, 2004" rather than
"2004-01-01." I know I can use a formatter to do this, but that only
seems to work with a column that is a datetime. Now, I've seen
examples with a Timestamp to a String, but it seems that what I'm
looking for is to display a String as a Timestamp.
Or, is there just an easier way to call up the current date in a fetch
spec rather than resorting to all of this?
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