System Date/Time Format Problems

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Fri Jul 1 13:59:22 EDT 2011


I'm running into some major differences in the way LC displays system date
and time versus what I have set up in my OSX control panel and wondering if
anyone else has run into this.  This is in the context of providing my users
with a preference setting for how they want dates/times displayed.

First problem is that OSX has 4 date and time formats (Short, Medium, Long,
and Full) whereas LC only has three (Short, Abbrev, Long) so there are some
inevitable discrepancies.

For dates:
LC Short = OSX Short
LC Long = OSX Full
LC Abbrev = no OSX format
no LC format = OSX medium or long


For times:
LC Short = OSX Short
LC Abbrev = OSX Short
LC Long = OSX Medium
no LC format = OSX Long or full

Any thoughts?

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>



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