Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Formatting dates / times nicely

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3: Re: Formatting dates / times nicely (response to 1)
Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 11/06/03 08:41 AM
You can also look at the new localization procs in packages/acs-lang/tcl/localization-procs.tcl
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4: Re: Formatting dates / times nicely (response to 3)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 11/06/03 10:25 AM
As of 5.0, the preferred way to format a date/time is

  lc_time_fmt datetime fmt [ locale ]

where fmt is one of these:
      %c          FDCC-set's appropriate date and time
                  representation.
      %q          Long date without weekday
      %Q          Long date with weekday
      %x          FDCC-set's appropriate date representation.
      %X          FDCC-set's appropriate time representation.

If you use one of these formats, it is automatically localized to the user's selected locale.

Anybody who knows what FDCC stands for is welcome to chime in.