>I want to sell mu fb3 application in Australia. They speak English and use
>the $ for money. So far the biggest change I need to make is to use the
>international date format of dd/mm/yy. I don't think it is going to be too
>hard to change the key filters in program generator that checks the date, but
>I wonder if someone has already done it. Also I have used the fb3 statement
>DATE$ in many places. How do you suggest I replace that with something that
>gives the current date in international format?
>
>Bruce Moore
>
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Here's the trick: Let the toolbox do the work and you won't have to 
be concerned about what the date format might be.

You can get the current date/time (down to the second) as follows:

currDateTime& = [_time]


This is a really cool thing because the entire date and time is 
stored as a long integer. (Save a lot of space!)

When you want to translate the current (or a saved date) into the 
proper string for the country used by the system software, use this:

CALL IUDateString(anyDate& , _ShortDate  , dateString$)

You will probably have to compare dates. The dates are stored by the 
toolbox as unsigned long ints, but FB sees them as signed long ints. 
Here is the work around:

IF (oneDate&>>1) > (anotherDate&>>1) THEN PRINT "oneDate is greater 
than anotherDate"

Other things that you may investigate...


USR HOUR
USR MINUTE
USR SECOND
USR YEAR
USR MONTH
USR DAY
USR DAYOFWEEK

finally, you may want to look at SECS2DATE and DATE2SECS for 
converting to and from a long integer date number.

Good luck!



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