Date Conversion Problem - Another Kick at the Cat

[Len Morgan]

I beg to differ with you but you got AT LEAST two responses with 
workable solutions.  Are you sure you haven't got some sort of spam 
filter on that is preventing you from seeing the responses?

Len Morgan


Gregory Lypny wrote:
> 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
>
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