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<div>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? </div><div><br></div><div>I need my date formatted to sqlite format, eg, yyyy-mm-dd</div><div><br></div><div>However, soon as I do that, gambas switches it to mm/dd/yyyy.</div><div><br></div><div>My OS regional settings are correct. Using Mint 18.3 KDE and Gambas 3.13 (Thanks Charlie for the upgrade tip)</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>My sqlite3 database complains whenever I try and save the dates in Gambas's preferred format.</div><div><br></div><div>I know I am doing something wrong since no one else has this issue.... but what?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 11:05:06 AM GMT+2, David Silverwood via User <user@lists.gambas-basic.org> wrote:
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<div>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.)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Monday, April 29, 2019, 7:24:06 PM GMT+2, Charlie Ogier <charlie@cogier.com> wrote:
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Dim dDate As Date<br clear="none">
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edtDate.Text = "2019-04-29" 'I presume this is the format
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edtDate.Text = Format$(dDate, "dd/mm/yyyy")<br clear="none">
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If you use the ppa you can have the latest version of Gambas. Run
the following command in Terminal and Gambas 3.13.0 will install.
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On 29/04/2019 14:40, David Silverwood via User wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div>I'm new to the forum so please forgive any mistakes in
protocol. I am also pretty new to Gambas and have a lot to
learn, so please forgive once again any stupid questions or
mistakes.</div>
<div>Am trying to get Gambas dates to work for me. I have a
SQLite3 database and as we know SQLite dates are stored as
YYYY-MM-DD. It seems Gambas dates are stored MM-DD-YYYY which
in South Africa doesn't work as our local dates are stored
dd-mm-yyyy. Now, when I format$ my dateboxes/textboxes to read
yyyy-mm-dd, depending on the date, I either get a blank box or
the month and day are swopped and therefore also renders the
date unusable here. </div>
<div>My localisation settings for Linux Mint 18.3 KDE are
correct.</div>
<div>How can I convince Gambas to use the local date settings or
at least format the date to the 'correct' format for our area?</div>
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<div>The problem occurs when I load the dates from the database
and try and format the dates to 'yyyy-mm-dd' using</div>
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</span><div> If edtDate.Text Then</div>
<div> dDate = Val(edtDate.Text)</div>
<div> edtDate.Text = Format$(dDate, "yyyy-mm-dd")</div>
<div> Endif</div>
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<div>Any but any suggestions/directions would be much
appreciated.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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