New date format: YYYY-MM-DD

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Fri Oct 14 21:02:19 EDT 2005


The numbers come right in line with the Dateitmes conversion...

>Anyone want to vote for a new standard date format?
>
>YYYY-MM-DD
>
>In fact I believe the above is some standard now...
>
>  I find myself more and more encountering this as input from systems 
>both of my own creation and from others...
>
>Now you have to do a little dance to get that into a convertable 
>string...or am I missing something
>
>input: e.g.
>
>06/04/13 tab someData tab SomeMoreData etc
>
>set the itemdel to tab
>put item 1 of line 1 into tDate
>set the itemdel to "/"
>put "/" &  item 1 of tDate after tDate
>delete item 1 of tDate
>set the itemdel to tab
>
>Sivakatirswami

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stephen barncard
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