Re: [Vala] Date format

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

Thanks, but that doesn't solve my problem. I already got access to that, 
and tested format("%x"); unfortunately, it puts the year as a two-digit 
number.

I want the same than format("%x") but with four-digit years; the problem 
is how to know if the current locale mandates to write month/day/year or 
day/month/year.

Currently I do a check at program startup, doing format("%x") for date 
day 1, month 3, year 2005, and check the output: if there's a 3 as the 
first number, then the order is month/day/year; if not, it's 
day/month/year. Unfortunately, that's an extremely ugly hack. So I want 
to know if is there a straightforward way of doing this.

Thanks.

El 25/10/11 15:35, Reid Thompson escribió:
> On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 22:33 +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> > I want to print a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy,
> > acording
> slightly modified from http://live.gnome.org/Vala/TimeSample
>
> void main () {
>
>      // A DateTime from a Unix timestamp
>      int64 timestamp = 1234151912;
>      var time = new DateTime.from_unix_utc (timestamp);
>      // convert back to Unix timestamp
>      assert (time.to_unix () == timestamp);
>
>      // A DateTime from year, month, day, hour, minute, second
>      time = new DateTime.utc (2010, 10, 22, 9, 22, 0);
>
>      // The current time in local timezone
>      var now = new DateTime.now_local ();
>      print ("Is daylight savings time: %s\n", now.is_daylight_savings () ? "yes" : "no");
>      print ("The timezone abbreviation is: %s\n", now.get_timezone_abbreviation ());
>
>      // returns time in RFC 3339 format: 2010-10-21T23:48:03+0200
>      string date_string = now.to_string ();
>      print ("Current time in RFC 3339 format: %s\n", date_string);
>
>      // for example, according to the current locale
>      print ("According to the current locale: %s\n", now.format ("%x %X"));
>
>      print ("Day of month: %d\n", now.get_day_of_month ());
>      print ("Week of year: %d\n", now.get_week_of_year ());
>
>      // Add one day, three hours and five minutes to a DateTime:
>      var future = now.add_days (1).add_hours (3).add_minutes (5);
>      print (@"Plus one day, three hours and five minutes: $future\n");
>
>
>      print ("According to the current locale: %s\n", now.format ("%d/%m/%Y"));
>      print ("According to the current locale: %s\n", now.format ("%m/%d/%Y"));
>
> }

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