Default Date Input format DDMMYY (Reporter Specific)
At 24 FEB 1998 03:14:00PM Wayne Curzadd wrote:
Is there a way to make a US version of AREV assume default date input is in DDMMYY (International) format when the iconv "D" format is used. Normally 02/03/98 is considered Feb 3, 1998, but would like this to return March 2, 1998 without having to modify code based enter screens.
I assume the international language sets may do this, but would prefer not changing the alpha/numeric sorting in AREV as some of these do. Is there a parameter in AREV or the Language record that does this?
At 24 FEB 1998 04:43PM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
ICONV D is Month/Date/Year.
If you want to change that, you have to change the option. It's not based on a language set or anything like that.
DE will give you European (non-US) style dates.
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At 25 FEB 1998 04:30AM Andrew P Mcauley wrote:
As Aaron says - for Iconv, no - for oconv…
Our non-American readers might be interested to know that D2/ does not always have to produce a date in the format MM/DD/YY. The undocumented @variable @DATE.FORMAT can be used to alter the way in which all dates are converted. To use, set @DATE.FORMAT to the modifier required and this modifier will subsequently be tagged to the end of all date conversions.
Thus setting @DATE.FORMAT to 'E' and printing the date D2/ would give a date in the format DD/MM/YY. This seems to work for all etters, e.g. H, J etc.
(Volume 1, Issue 9, Page 3)
amcauley@sprezzatura.com
At 25 FEB 1998 08:44AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
And our more QA inclined authors might check to see that this works in ARev 3.0 and above
This feature stopped working sometime around ARev 3ish
apk@sprezzatura.com
At 25 FEB 1998 09:03AM Andrew P McAuley wrote:
Worked on my 3.12 this morning.. mind you it does have an unusual serial number….
Mind you I do try to check these things before I post…
amcauley@sprezzatura.com
At 25 FEB 1998 10:31AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
Hmmm…maybe I should follow instructions a little better….
@DATE.FORMAT just holds the specifier "E" not the whole value "D2/E"
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