Re: Source changes
CChris wrote:
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> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > The commonly used date format is {YYYY,MM,DD, ...} but the Epoch form is
> > also
> > used. There are at least two good date-time libraries in the User
> > Contributions
> > section so I'd suggest that we combine the good aspects of those into a
> > single
> > officially-supported library.
> What you say is true for UK/US aligned countries. Most Latin countries
> (France,
> Spain, Italy...) use DD-MM-YY or -YYYY format. And if I remember correctly,
> Japan uses another specific format.
I suspect you have misread what I said above. The date format I described is the
INTERNAL one and not the one formatted for display. I know the locale issues very
well as I have to deal with the US-Centric world far too often.
Most countries use DD-MM-YYYY, Japan mostly uses YYYY-MM-DD, and the U.S. uses
MM-DD-YYYY, plus there are other variations.
> As a result, locale-dependent routines are needed. Problem is, how will they
> behave under DOS, where I am not sure that locales make sense at all?
I had in mind that the applications using my library would specify the locale
elements (once) at run time and I wouldn't try to get them from the operating
system. I'd leave that task to the application.
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell
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