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Re: Formatting a date
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- Subject: Re: Formatting a date
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at lexica dot net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:22:03 -0700
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At 18:38 11-08-2000 -0400, Heather Lindsay wrote:
> A little efficiency question for you.
> I have a date which is in the form of "CCYYMMDD.HHMMSS" and I'm
>formatting this date to look like this: "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT". I have
>my own way of doing this but I suspect that there is a better way. Can
>anyone tell me if there is? I tried format-number() originally but it
>choked on the ":". What I'm doing now works but isn't very pretty. Code
>below.
An excuse to publish! I wrote some ISO 8601 parsing code as part of an
invoice generator. Naturally, I got it good enough for me, and then was
waiting to properly document it before sharing it, and never got around to
it. I'll post a URL shortly.
The code won't handle CCYYMMDD.HHMMSS exactly, but it handles
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS (and subsets thereof), and should be applicable
(replace substring-before() calls with substring() and appropriate parameters).
-Chris
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