New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

[Mark Smith]

David, are you sure you've understood what "english" denotes in  
Revolution?
 From the docs:

english
Used with the date and time functions to specify a date or time in  
the format used in the United States.

So "20/4/02" is not an english date....

Best,

Mark

On 18 May 2007, at 09:17, David Bovill wrote:

> I have been testing/working with the new date fixes in 2.8.1 and  
> have a
> problem with english dates - which I cannot convert properly:
>
>            put "20/4/02" into testDate
>            -- convert testDate from english date to dateItems
>            convert testDate from short english date to dateItems
>            put testDate
>
>            put "20/4/02" into testDate
>            -- convert testDate from system date to dateItems
>            convert testDate from short english date to dateItems
>            put testDate
>
>            put "6/4/02" into testDate
>            -- convert testDate from english date to dateItems
>            convert testDate from short english date to dateItems
>            put testDate
>
>            put "6/4/02" into testDate
>            convert testDate from english date to seconds
>            convert testDate to dateItems
>            put testDate
>            break
>
> Is this a bug I should file? Either way how can convert the english  
> dates
> back - do I have to manually change the order of the items myself in a
> script?
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