I keep gathering these little treasure up for the CD. Lately, we've had one or two gems per day. :) Keep it up! >>Ken, >> >>further to ready-internationalised dates >>have a look at: >> >>IUDatePString( rawSecs,format,resultStr,intlHndl) >> >>it should help. >> >>:-j > >Ken, > This little code prints the name of the days and the name of the months >using the international resource 'itl1'. It also prints the today's name. > > I hope that this could be useful for you nice program. > >Michele. > >begin record Intl1Rec >dim days[6] as str15'{day names} >dim months[11] as str15'{month names} >dim suppressDay as Byte'{elements to suppress} >dim lngDateFmt as Byte'{order of elements} >dim dayLeading0 as Byte'{leading 0 in day no.?} >dim abbrLen as Byte'{abbreviation length} >dim st0 as long'{separator string} >dim st1 as long'{separator string} >dim st2 as long'{separator string} >dim st3 as long'{separator string} >dim st4 as long'{separator string} >dim intl1Vers as Integer'{version & region} >dim localRtn as long'{flag for extended itl1} >END record > > >dim itl1 as handle to Intl1Rec >itl1 = fn GetIntlResource( 1 ) > >dim i as char > >print "Days of the week:" >for i = 0 to 6 >print itl1..days[i] >next i > >print >print "Months:" >for i = 0 to 11 >print itl1..months[i] >next i > >print >print "Today is "; itl1..days$[usr DAYOFWEEK - 1] > >-- >To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> Best, -STAZ ~)~ 800.348.2623 Orders http://www.stazsoftware.com 228.255.7086 FAX mailto:staz@...