Convert date

[Mark Smith]

Which makes me think, it would be nice if we could have plug-in code modules. Essentially a faceless widget that could be called to perform some sort of action (with parameters). Completely encapsulated. Or is that “bat crazy” as Mike would say 😊

> On 14 Jul 2023, at 12:08 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Yes to this. I have, lot so many developer, a set of functions to translate to and from this date format.
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> We can all write our own or use ones others have provided, but it would be nice if this was built into the language.
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> On 7/13/2023 10:59 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote:
>> Jacque: Nice! Particularly as a demonstration of the variety of ways to achieve an objective in LC and different coding styles. I’ll add the snippets to my own version.
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>> The ISO date (aka sql date) format is my favourite because it avoids the ambiguity of the English/American ordering of day, month and mostly because it works for sorting. I could wish it were universally adopted.
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>> Neville Smythe
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