Subj : date format ideas
To : Ken Bowley
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Oct 05 2016 04:56 pm
Hello Ken!
Wednesday October 05 2016 07:49, you wrote to All:
Would have thought that the Linux standard date format of YYYYMMDD can be used
for all. Then only convert for display subject to LC settings (sysop) or for
language settings for bbs users (or there again just the LC one only).
Unix has a date and a date/time construct in C that has been in use a very
long
time that can be used for the storage of such.
My applications when updating all use this form and only o/p to display or
pronter based on users system settings via LC_TIME.
Vince
> Hello everybody!
> I was talking with a friend/co-worker about the date format issue with
> MBSE, and he asked if we could just use standard strftime formats.
> This seems like an idea that would reduce much of the complication
> involved with this change.
> The changes to records would be a small string (6 bytes?) for the
> default system format, and the same for user preferences.
> Display changes would be very simple, since they could just use
> strftime to format the date display.
> The GetDate function in mbsebbs/input.c would need to need to
> understand the strftime format (or a reduced/simplified subset that
> includes %Y, %m, and %d), and adjust the handling of user import
> accordingly.
> The language files currently have the date format hardcoded for the
> prompts to enter dates for "Date of Birth" and for entering a date
> when searching files. These will need to be more flexible. Perhaps
> something similar to what is needed for GetDate will work for
> templating the date format in the language files.
> Along with these changes is having MBSE use a time_t rather than a
> string when possible so we can get rid of code (only two places that I
> can think of at the moment) that manipulates a date string into a
> YYYYMMDD format before turning it into an integer for comparison and
> sorting.
> Ken
Vince
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