Formatting date

[eric33]

I want to display date in local system format.
For example : dd/mm/yyyy for france and mm/dd/yyyy for us.

I try the following code but it didn't work :


CTime time = CTime::GetCurrentTime();
CString strDate = time.Format(_T("%x"));




In fact this code ALWAYS results in : mm/dd/yyyy

Please help

[Franky Braem]

Have you changed your locale settings in Regional Settings ?

[eric33]

Yes I have.
Therefore a customer test with england local settings and the problem is identical.

Note : The systems used are NT or w98.

Can you not do

date.format(%d/%m/%y);

[Franky Braem]

I've tested here at my portable. And I have the same problem.

[Lee Marmara]

Try this.


COleDateTime timeNow;
timeNow = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime();
CString strDate = timeNow.Format(VAR_DATEVALUEONLY);
CString strTime = timeNow.Format(VAR_TIMEVALUEONLY);

[Roger Allen]

Hi,
I think you may have to get around this problem by reading the settings from the registry used by the current user.
If you look at the key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International]

The sub-key "sShortDate"="M/d/yyyy" tells you what format you would be required to display your date in. You would only have to parse this to get the information you need.

HTH


Roger Allen

[Robin Dunlop]

First of all: Skip CTime! COleDateTime will last for quite a while longer.

Then, formatting as regional settings can be done like this:
COleDateTime dt;
CString szDate;

szDate = dt.Format(VAR_DATEVALUEONLY , LANG_USER_DEFAULT);

// and the other way around

dt.ParseDateTime( szDate, VAR_DATEVALUEONLY, LANG_USER_DEFAULT );