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.
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)
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
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…
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"