Localized date time won't convert to dateItems

[Roger Eller]

Thanks Klaus!  I will give it a try.

~Roger
On Jul 23, 2016 11:46 AM, "Klaus major-k" <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> > Am 23.07.2016 um 17:34 schrieb Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
> >:
> >
> > I have an application running on Windows 7.  Windows is localized for
> > Spanish language, and resides in Mexico.  Convert doesn't work.  In their
> > default format, convert VAR to dateItems returns the original unchanged
> VAR
> > content.
> >
> > This is my workaround.  Is there a better way?
> >
> > put "22/07/2016 05:22 p.m." into tMEXdate
> > replace "a.m" with "AM" in tMEXdate
> > replace "p.m" with "PM" in tMEXdate
> > set the itemDel to "/"
> > put item 1 of tMEXdate into tDD
> > put item 2 of tMEXdate into tMM
> > put tMM into item 1 of tMEXdate
> > put tDD into item 2 of tMEXdate
> > -- now it is the same as in USA
> > -- "07/22/2016 05:22 PM"
> > convert tMEXdate to dateItems
>
> don't know if that will work for you, but "usesystemdate" did the trick
> for a german date:
> ...
> set the usesystemdate to TRUE
> put "Samstag, 23. Juli 2016 17:44" into tDate
> convert tDate to dateitems
> put tDate
> ...
> -> 2016,7,23,17,44,0,7
>
> > ~Roger
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> http://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
>
>
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