Date Conversion Problem - Another Kick at the Cat

[Gregory Lypny]

Hello everyone,

I sent out this question the other day but no takers.  Hoping someone  
might have an answer.

Regards,

	Gregory

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> A date conversion problem has cropped up in one of my stacks.  I have
> a handler that starts with
>
> 	set useSysemDate to true
>
> I'm processing tab-delimited text files, so later in the handler I
> have the line
>
> 	convert the fourth item of aData[theDate] to abbrev English date
>
> Now, the dates in the text file are in short format, dd/mm/yyyy, e.g.,
> 10/12/2007 for Monday, December 10th, and I'm converting them to my
> system's medium format in Leopard, which is Mon, Dec 10, 2007, but
> what I'm getting is the incorrect date because it is coming out in
> American format, mm/dd/yyyy or Fri, Oct 12, 2007.
>
> Is this a Leopard problem?  Because I never had it before I upgraded.
> Dates are critical to my work, so any suggestions would be most
> appreciated.
>
> Incidentally, I'm using Revolution 2.8.1 Build 470 and Leopard 10.5.1
> on an Intel iMac.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Gregory