Using libc's nl_langinfo() function should do the job. Don't know any Pascal'ish function(s) for this.

Things like THOUSEP (thousand separator), CRNCYSTR (currency symbol), etc can be queried this way for the current locale.

Cheers.

Can anyone help me figure out why:
FormatDateTime('MM/DD/YYYY', ThisDate)
always results in something looking like:
MM-DD-YYYY

It replaces my chosen slash with a dash.

That's fine for you foreigner's, but us warmongering Americans like slashes in our dates. ;-)

I know it's an FPC and not a Lazarus question, just wondering if someone knows an easy workaround. So far I'm having to manual separate out a date and reconstruct it myself to get what I want.

You should set the 'DateSeparator' char (in sysutils) to '/' instead of the defalt '-'. Then all date routines will use /...

If someone knows how to obtain these values from Linux, let me know, and I'll have them initialized correctly from the OS environment. Same for timeseparator
shorttimeformat
longtimeformat
Decimalseparator
thousandseparator
Currencydecimals
Currencystring

Michael.

Thank you, I'll have a look at their implementation.

I'll need to create a pascal version, because sysutils should remain independent from libc.

OTOH, I could make a separate unit which uses libc, and sets the options in sysutils using defaults obtained from libc. It's then up to the user to decide which one he uses.

Michael.

Hi,

<snip>
Program foo;
Uses
        SysUtils;
Var
        S: String;
Begin
        DateSeparator := '/';
        S := FormatDateTime('MM/DD/YYYY', Date);
        WriteLn(S);
End.
</snip>

toaster]$ fpc foo.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 1.1 [2003/03/26] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2002 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling foo.pp
Linking foo
10 Lines compiled, 0.1 sec
toaster]$ ./foo
03/27/2003

DateSeparator (declared in SysUtils), like in Delphi/Kylix, is a variable for locale specific functions that use dates.

There are others: DecimalSeparator, etc.

Cheers.

No it does not work even if you set DateSeparator := '/' you can try to use
FormatDateTime('m"/"d"/"y',Now) to get the desired result.

Regards,

Yoyong

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From: Michael Van Canneyt on 03/27/2003 08:23 AM
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03/27/2003 04:23 PM
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You should set the 'DateSeparator' char (in sysutils) to '/' instead of the defalt '-'. Then all date routines will use /...

If someone knows how to obtain these values from Linux, let me know, and I'll have them initialized correctly from the OS environment. Same for timeseparator
shorttimeformat
longtimeformat
Decimalseparator
thousandseparator
Currencydecimals
Currencystring

Michael.

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Try using FormatDateTime('m"/"d"/"y',Now);

Yoyong

From: Tony Maro on 03/27/2003 03:28 AM GMT

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Subject: [lazarus] FormatDateTime()

03/27/2003 11:28 AM
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Can anyone help me figure out why:
FormatDateTime('MM/DD/YYYY', ThisDate)
always results in something looking like:
MM-DD-YYYY

It replaces my chosen slash with a dash.

That's fine for you foreigner's, but us warmongering Americans like slashes in our dates. ;-)

I know it's an FPC and not a Lazarus question, just wondering if someone knows an easy workaround. So far I'm having to manual separate out a date and reconstruct it myself to get what I want.

I tried that one is a Lazarus project but I does not work. The scope of DateSeparator is global, right? So I changed it in FormCreate to DateSeparator : = '/' but it does not work.

Regards,

Yoyong

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From: Luis Mineiro on 03/27/2003 09:46 AM GMT

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Cc: (bcc: Yoyong Hernan-ET/PGI)
Subject: Re: [lazarus] FormatDateTime()

03/27/2003 05:46 PM
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Hi,

<snip>
Program foo;
Uses
        SysUtils;
Var
        S: String;
Begin
        DateSeparator := '/';
        S := FormatDateTime('MM/DD/YYYY', Date);
        WriteLn(S);
End.
</snip>

toaster]$ fpc foo.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 1.1 [2003/03/26] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2002 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling foo.pp
Linking foo
10 Lines compiled, 0.1 sec
toaster]$ ./foo
03/27/2003

DateSeparator (declared in SysUtils), like in Delphi/Kylix, is a variable for locale specific functions that use dates.

There are others: DecimalSeparator, etc.

Cheers.