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

Fri May 17 09:42:40 CEST 2019

Take look here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue/272892#272892

Gianluigi

Il giorno ven 17 mag 2019 alle ore 09:00 David Silverwood via User <
user at lists.gambas-basic.org> ha scritto:

> 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 ins
> tall 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
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 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.
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 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)
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 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.
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 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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