Internet date

[Tore Nilsen]

But you can get the localized week day names: put the system weekdaynames — be aware that this sets sunday as the first day of the week no matter where you are


You can get the localized names of the months: put the system monthnames


Regards
Tore

> 1. nov. 2016 kl. 16.48 skrev J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>:
> 
> Thanks everyone, that tells me what I needed to know. I am surprised that the day and month names aren't in the user's language though, I thought they would be.
> 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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> 
> 
> On November 1, 2016 9:47:11 AM Tore Nilsen <tore.nilsen at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Use systemDate does not apply to the internet date. I got the same result with this set to both true and false.
>> 
>> Tore
>> 
>> 
>>> 1. nov. 2016 kl. 15.24 skrev Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>:
>>> 
>>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> 
>>> > Is the internet date in a consistent format in every country? That
>>> > is, except for the spelling of the day and month names, is the format
>>> > always the same?
>>> 
>>> I believe all dates in LC are delivered using US English spellings, except when explicitly directed otherwise by setting the useSystemDate to true.
>>> 
>>> With the Internet date, though, the Dictionary notes that it follows RFC 2822, which IIFC only supports US English date element names, so I think it should be unaffected by the useSystemDate.
>>> 
>>> If anyone using a non-US English system can double-check the format after setting the useSystemDate to true it would be helpful to confirm that.
>>> 
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