Re: Date Values

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

It shouldn't be hard to subclass the TieScalar code to do the conversion
inline.  Then you just tell it the mode at creation time (or whatever)
and let it convert to/from the user's preferred representation.  Use
epoch seconds and Date::Manip is your friend.

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 00:17, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> I'm getting back to the idea of using Gtk2::TieScalar and 
> Gtk2::TieArrayRef to tie fields on a form to an array, and use a helper 
> object to load the array and handle updates.
>
> We have a problem with date fields. People in Australia are expecting 
> dates in the format dd-mm-yyyy, and everything else seems to be 
> yyyy-mm-dd. To get around this, I have been using GtkCalendar, so they 
> can click the date and not worry about manual input. But this won't work 
> with a GtkCalendar, will it?
>
> I've had a look at Gtk2::CellRendererDate in the examples directory ( 
> which does a cool pop-down GtkCalendar ), but this only applies to cells 
> in a TreeView, doesn't it? I want to have these laid out via glade on 
> the form.
>
> I can use MySQL's date_format() to format dates so they *look* familiar 
> to people, but updating the database from data entered by people is a 
> problem, unless my helper object somehow knows it's dealing with a date, 
> and reverses the month / day fields.
>
> What options do I have?
>
> Dan