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

Fri May 17 08:59:52 CEST 2019

 Thanks Gianluigi
The following explains my problem, from your example. Thank you very much!
gbx3: warning: cannot switch to language 'en_ZA.UTF-8': No such file or directory. Did you install the corresponding locale packages?
Tried it with EN_GB as well and again the same error. I suspect it may be a distro error as gambas probably switches to en_US as default? en_ZA should have installed when I originally installed Mint 18. Seems there is no en_ZA language pack out there ??? Checked the distro. Ah well, back to the drawing board.
Thank you Charlie and Gianluigi, for your patience and your much valued assistance. Really appreciate it!
David

    On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 11:35:07 PM GMT+2, Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> wrote:  

 Try the attached project
RegardsGianluigi

Il giorno gio 16 mag 2019 alle ore 19:45 Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> ha scritto:

I'm not talking about using dates like Strings (Cogier) but using dates as Dates.
This was taught to me by Fabien Bodard (here) and Sotema in Italy.
If you always use the Date value for your calculations you will have no problems.
Then when you need to show it to the user use Str or Format.
RegardsGianluigi

Il giorno gio 16 mag 2019 alle ore 19:32 Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> ha scritto:

You can write the Date value like this:
hResult!usdat = hDate ' ReportTest
And you can read it like this:
Left(Str(hDate), 10) '(international)
Or
Format(hDate, "dd/mm/yyyy") '(Local)
RegardsGianluigi

Il giorno gio 16 mag 2019 alle ore 18:48 David Silverwood via User <user at lists.gambas-basic.org> ha scritto:

 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.
RegardsGianluigi

Il giorno gio 16 mag 2019 alle ore 16:17 David Silverwood via User <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> 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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