Re: arbitrary date formats based on user prefs

FROM : Ben Dougall
DATE : Wed Dec 22 19:19:27 2004

On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 04:00  pm, mmalcolm crawford wrote:

>
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 6:00 AM, Ben Dougall wrote:
>

>>>> how can i display particular date elements in the style of the 
>>>> user's prefs?

>>> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/

>>> Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSUserDefaults.html>
>>> See, for example, NSDateFormatString

>> sorry to be a thicky but i can't see how that'd get various sets of 
>> date elements -- i'm trying to work out how to get a preferred format 
>> for different combinations of date elements.
>> how can i get the preferred format for, for example, the full day 
>> name(%A) and the day number of month(%e) and the full month name(%B) 
>> as the user would want to see those date elements? is there a way to 
>> say "what's the preferred format for this combination of el>> %B %A ?" (or other combinations) and get back the format "%A, %e %B" 
>> or "%A, %B %e" or whatever depending on how the user would like it -- 
>> based on the international date pref settings.

>
> Sorry, I misunderstood the question.  There isn't a straightforward 
> way to do this.  If for some reason you can't simply use the user 
> defaults, it sounds like you should probably have the user set their 
> own preferences for your application.


ok thanks. further thought, just want to check: are the standard date 
format strings, in the user's preferred arrangement, available anywhere 
somehow? -- that is the actual format strings themselves for the 
established usual date formats?

thanks, ben.