Subj : date format ideas
To : Vince Coen
From : Ken Bowley
Date : Wed Oct 05 2016 06:52 pm
On 2016-10-05 09:56:28 -0700, Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:
> 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).
You may be a little disappointed to learn that in the user record in MBSE
sDateOfBirth is stored as a string in DD-MM-YYYY format, although other dates
(tFirstLoginDate and tLastLoginDate) are stored a int32_t.
> 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.
agreed.
> 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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