[Newbies] working with dates

[Mathieu SUEN]

yes great.
 that how you can work farst. :)
You can use the short cut like  alt-m alt-n alt-b alt-shift-n(depend
on wheter you are in windows or mac) and so on to find your piece of
code faster.
Loook at the menu to find the meaning.


     Math

2006/12/12, Kel Graham <kel.graham at gmail.com>:
> Ah - thank you!
>
> It took me a while to realise what the second half of the printFormat:
> statement was saying, but got there in the end.
>
> Also, thanks for pointing out the tests in Kernel-Chronology-Tests.. I kept
> looking at the Date class, never realising that there were lots of tests in
> the next category! A quick use of Method Finder helped me find them..
>
> Cheers,
> Kel.
>
>
> On 12/12/06, Mathieu SUEN <mathk.sue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have a look at #yyyymmdd
> >
> > And the test:
> >
> > testPrinting
> >
> >         self
> >                 assert: date mmddyyyy = '6/2/1973';
> >                 assert: date yyyymmdd = '1973-06-02';
> >                 assert: (date printFormat: #(3 1 2 $! 2 1 1)) =
> '1973!2!Jun'.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > 2006/12/12, Kel Graham <kel at orawia.com>:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'd like to see how to control the formatting and storage of dates. I'm
> in
> > > the UK so would like to store my dates in yyyy-mm-dd format, but display
> > > them as dd-mm-yyyy; or as '12 December 2006' sometimes as well. I've
> looked
> > > at the Date class, but apart from the printFormat: method (which I can't
> see
> > > an explanation of the format) I can't see any easy way of ensuring that
> > > squeak converts my dd-mm-yyyy input into a nice ISO yyyy-mm-dd format.
> > >
> > > Could anyone suggest some classes/code to look at?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks very much,
> > > Kel.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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