Subj : System check ???
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Sat Oct 26 2002 09:36 pm

Hi Gerald.

25-Oct-02 19:04:21, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

 GM> On Thursday October 24 2002 at 20:48, Jasen Betts [3:640/531.42]
 GM> wrote to Gerald Miller, about:  System check ???

 GM>>> Please do me the favor of running the following snippet and
 GM>>> please tell me your results

 JB>> the number is 8432 I'm not fussy about the separartor but the
 JB>> computer uses / codepage is 437 country is 61 (Australia)

 GM> Thank you.  I now see that I should have asked you the format of
 GM> the date data, ie, DD.MM.YY (German); MM-DD-YY
 GM> (American/Canadian); YY/MM/DD (Australia ???)... ??

  DD/MM/YY  (same as UK (I think) same field order as Europe.)

 JB>> Now that I know to edit the data file into aus format it's no big
 JB>> problem.

 GM> I'm trying to find a way to automatically convert the data file to
 GM> whatever date format is currently being used.  I've found two
 GM> different ways to accomplish this...

what 4dos version are you targeting? the current version supports different
formats in %@makedate, but not in %@date (strange omission)

 GM> I'm not familiar with the ISO format....

 echo %@replace[2,d,%@replace[20,yy,%@replace[1,m,%@makedate[14936,4]]]]
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