Subj : Y2K Toilet Paper
To   : GERRY DANEN
From : CHRIS CRANFORD
Date : Tue May 23 2000 11:28 am

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-> ID: FastEcho 1.46.1 10468
-> 02 Dec 99 10:35, CHRIS CRANFORD wrote to GILLES BEAUREGARD:

->  CC> This is so true, and that is where you have to make sure that your
->  CC> software is reading the configurations (either in windows to 
-> check the  CC> users format specified) or in the BIOS settings from 
-> the PC.. This  CC> takes a little work to do, but it saves your 
-> application from  CC> "choking" when being used Internationally, been 
-> there ..  I had an  CC> application I wrote a long time ago and I 
-> automatically "assumed" date  CC> format to be mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy 
-> .. A user was trying to use it in  CC> Europe and he had his system 
-> set to dd/mm/yy and my system got  CC> everything right except for 
-> switching the month & day ....  CC> embarrassing enough, I figured it 
-> out and fixed it .. but have to make  CC> sure we think of EVERY 
-> possibility when considering dates!

-> See my reply to Gilles. If I manually entered yyyy-MM-dd (note caps 
-> for month), would your software recognize it properly and display 
-> 1999-12-04?

Are you speaking of would it recognize that MM was capitalized?
As far as knowning to put the yyyy first, then the month, and then the
day, yes it would.. My software uses the Format specified by your
Windows 95/98/NT system to display you date, so if I had in Windows my
date specified to display as follows:
  
  dd MMM yy hh:mm:ss, it would display 05 Dec 99 23:08:53
          yyyy/mm/dd, it would display 1999/12/05
          dd/mm/yyyy, it would display 05/12/1999
    DDD MMM dd, yyyy, it would display Sun Dec 05, 1999
    
and so on. you get the picture I assume :) .. It is just a high tech
dateformat routine that I wrote to work with Windows...

Chris Cranford
TKD Software, Inc.

PS - For those not using Windows and for my applications that are based
on MSDOS, they used the BIOS settings...

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