[Gambas-user] DATE function Gambas 3.8.4 (Distro)

[Charlie Ogier]

Hi David,

What are you getting from the database as the following code works: -

/*Public Sub Form_Open()*//*
*//*Dim dDate As Date*//*
*//*Dim sDate As New String[]*//*
*//*
*//*edtDate.Text = "05/16/2019"                             ''Is this 
what you get??*//*
*//*
*//* If edtDate.Text Then*//*
*//*    edtDate.Text = Left(edtDate.Text, 10)*//*
*//*   sDate = Split(edtDate.Text, "/")*//*
*//*   dDate = Date(sDate[2], sDate[0], sDate[1])*//*
*//*   edtDate.Text = Format$(dDate, "yyyy-mm-dd")          'Result: 
2019-05-16*//*
*//*   edtDate2.Text = Format$(dDate, "dd-mm-yyyy")         'Result: 
16-05-2019*//*
*//*   edtDate3.Text = Format$(dDate, "dddd dd mmmm yyyy")  'Result: 
Thursday 16 May 2019*//*
*//*Endif*//*
*//*
*//*End*//*
*/

Charlie

On 16/05/2019 17:47, David Silverwood via User wrote:
> and if I use today's date I get the following error...
>
> 'Error 21 in FExpenses.btnLoad_Click.143
>
> The following error has occurred:
>
> Out of bounds'
>
> I think its stating that the month cannot be 16 and therefore out of 
> bounds because I do not get this error when I use say 2019-05-05/ 
> 2019-09-12 etc. As I said, my textbox swops the month and day around.
>
> Please bear with me. I am currently learning Gambas.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 6:40:08 PM GMT+2, David Silverwood via User 
> <user at lists.gambas-basic.org> wrote:
>
>
> To add
>
> if I do this, which I have also tried, it comes close but still swops 
> the month and day around...
>
>     If edtDate.Text Then
>         sDate = Left$(edtDate.Text, 10)
>         $Date = Split(sDate, "/")
>         Debug sDate = $Date[2] & "-" & $Date[1] & "-" & $Date[0]
>         edtDate.Text = sDate
>     Endif
>
> Changing $Date[1] and $Date[0] around makes no difference whatsoever
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
> On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 6:31:07 PM GMT+2, David Silverwood via User 
> <user at lists.gambas-basic.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gianluigi
>
> Are you referring to this portion:
>  Randomize
>   $hConn.Begin()
>   For i = 0 To $nRecords
>     nCasual = Rand(0, 30)
>     sName = aFirstName[nCasual]
>     nCasual = Rand(0, 30)
>     sSurname = aLastName[nCasual]
>     y = Rand(1959, 2000)
>     m = Rand(1, 12)
>     d = Rand(1, 28)
>     hDate = Date(y, m, d)
>     hResult = $hConn.Create("tuser")
>     hResult!usnam = sName
>     hResult!ussur = sSurname
>     hResult!usdat = hDate
>     hResult.Update
>   Next
>
> I actually found the code difficult to decipher but looking at it 
> again I assume you are referring to hDate = Date(y, m, d)?
>
>
>
> On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 6:25:09 PM GMT+2, Gianluigi 
> <bagonergi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I had shown you the correct code you need to look at in Report1.
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> Il giorno gio 16 mag 2019 alle ore 16:17 David Silverwood via User 
> <user at lists.gambas-basic.org <mailto:user at lists.gambas-basic.org>> ha 
> scritto:
>
>     Ok, so I'm back with the same problem. It seems to me Gambas has a
>     template format for a date and trying to change it is impossible?
>     As soon as Gambas sees it as a date, it reformats my formatting
>     back to the incorrect format and renders all the code useless. Is
>     this the way it is supposed to be?
>
>     I need my date formatted to sqlite format, eg, yyyy-mm-dd
>
>     However, soon as I do that, gambas switches it to mm/dd/yyyy.
>
>     My OS regional settings are correct. Using Mint 18.3 KDE and
>     Gambas 3.13 (Thanks Charlie for the upgrade tip)
>
>     The latter format is useless over here and inevitably gambas reads
>     the day and month wrong, by switching it... I've tried using Split
>     and in a debug /print statement I see that it does do exactly what
>     I need, but once the format hits the textbox, Gambas actually
>     changes it back to mm/dd/yyyy. How do I stop that? I tried DIM'ing
>     the dates as Strings but Gambas seems to read dates as dates even
>     if they are dimensioned as strings? (which I know they are
>     'special' strings of course).
>
>     My sqlite3 database complains whenever I try and save the dates in
>     Gambas's preferred format.
>
>     I know I am doing something wrong since no one else has this
>     issue.... but what?
>
>
>
>     On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 11:05:06 AM GMT+2, David Silverwood
>     via User <user at lists.gambas-basic.org
>     <mailto:user at lists.gambas-basic.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Thank you very much Charlie and Gianluigi. Those were pointers in
>     the right direction for me! I really appreciate your help. (Not to
>     mention I just learned a lot from both of your code too.)
>
>
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