system date

[Martin Koob]

OK I opened the 'Language and Region' settings panel and clicked on the ‘Advanced’ button and then clicked on the Tab for ‘Dates’

There is a field with a setting for “Short”  which was 2020-01-05.  I replaced the hyphens with slashes.

I had to quit and relaunch LiveCode for the change to take effect.  After I had done that the command 'put the system date’ returns '2020/05/04’

If I click 'Restore Defaults' in the ‘Dates' tab of the advanced 'Language and Region' settings panel my short date format goes back to 2020-05-04.

Martin




> On May 4, 2020, at 2:43 PM, Martin Koob via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Huh,  I get 2020-05-04 here in Canada.  Not sure what my region settings are.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin Koob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 4, 2020, at 2:39 PM, Jacques Hausser via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My region settings are by default. But I would not be surprised if the problem comes from Apple.
>> 
>>> Le 4 mai 2020 à 20:21, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> I tried here with DP4 on Mac OS 10.14.6.
>>> 
>>> I definitely get 04.05.20 when running your script.
>>> 
>>> Either this has to do with 10.15.4 or....
>>> Are you sure your region settings are correct. ;)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -
>>> Matthias Rebbe
>>> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
>>> 
>>>> Am 04.05.2020 um 20:07 schrieb Jacques Hausser via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>> 
>>>> Back to LC after a long time out. I’m using LC 9.6.0(dp 4) on Mac OS 10.15.4, and I just discovered that Livecode seems totally deaf to the words “system date”. EG:
>>>> 
>>>> put the date into today
>>>> convert today to system date
>>>> put today into fld 1
>>>> 
>>>> returns 5/4/20 instead of 04.05.20
>>>> 
>>>> Is "system date" deprecated? 
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