System Date/Time Format Problems

[Pete]

Thanks Jacque, that's a great start.  I also found the dateFormat function
which I think may assist in all this.
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:15 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 7/2/11 2:46 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>  So if a user tells me he wants his dates in OS X medium or long format, I
>> can't find out what that is with LC code, same for an OS X long time.
>>
>
> Start with these. The functions below will only work on US systems, or in
> countries that use US date/time formats. If you want to accomodate other
> countries you'll have to do more work.
>
> The "lookupZone" function is for the long and full time formats. I have
> exactly one entry in there for central time. What you need to do for that is
> make a list of all the time zones, one per line, in the same order my
> example uses. Store it in a custom property or somewhere. Retrieve the list
> for the lookup function.
>
> There may be a shell call to do that, or a list stored somewhere in OS X. I
> don't know. Anyway, maybe this will get you started:
>
> function formatDate pDate,pFormat -- short, medium, long, full
>  switch pFormat
>    case "short"
>      convert pDate to short date
>      put pDate into tFormattedDate
>      break
>    case "medium"
>      convert pDate to abbrev date
>      put item 2 to -1 of pDate into tFormattedDate
>      break
>    case "long"
>      convert pDate to long date
>      put item 2 to -1 of pDate into tFormattedDate
>      break
>    case "full"
>      convert pDate to long date
>      put pDate into tFormattedDate
>      break
>  end switch
>  return tFormattedDate
> end formatDate
>
> function formatTime pTime,pFormat
>  switch pFormat
>    case "short"
>      convert pTime to short time
>      put pTime into tFormattedTime
>      break
>    case "medium"
>      convert pTime to long time
>      put pTime into tFormattedTime
>      break
>    case "long"
>    case "full"
>      convert pTime to long time
>      put pTime into tFormattedTime
>      convert pTime to internet date
>      put word 6 of pTime into tTimeZone
>      put lookupZone(tTimeZone) into tZoneInfo
>      if pFormat = "long" then
>        put item 2 of tZoneInfo into tTimeZone
>      else -- full
>        put item 3 of tZoneInfo into tTimeZone
>      end if
>      put space & tTimeZone after tFormattedTime
>      break
>  end switch
>  return tFormattedTime
> end formatTime
>
> function lookupZone pHourOffset
>  -- need a list in this format, one line per zone:
>  put "-0500,CST,CT" into tZones
>  return line lineoffset(pHourOffset,tZones) of tZones
> end lookupZone
>
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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