Date.Shortdate does not seem to work?!

Targets Windows
1

Dear all,

I’m developing an application for mac and windows 10. I’m building it brick by brick so to say and now a simple line of code does not seem to work on windows 10. I think I’m overseeing something, but I can’t figure it out what.

I want to print the shortdate in a textarea. On mac this works, but on windows it gives me a blank space. When I use the example code for shortdate it also does not work.

Example code:
Dim d As New Date
MsgBox(d.shortdate)

I’ve checked the locale of my windows 10 machine and the short date is there how I want it to see in a textarea or a msgbox.

Can someone help me?

2

have you checked the Win10 System Preferences for how dates should be formatted?
Perhaps on this particular machine the format is invalid (or blank)??? just an idea

3

I’ve checked the preferences. see link to pictures.
picture 1
picture 2

I’m having this issue on two windows 10 machines.

4

If you can reproduce it reliably file a bug report.

To solve the immediate issue, I would roll my own method. It is not that difficult to do.

5

I will try to change locales and see what will happen. If it will not change I will file a bug report.

6

What happens with LongDate?
What happens if you actually set the date?

7

Longdate also does not work. I figured that out 2 minutes ago. There has to be some setting I miss in win10.

If I set the date it will show the date with 00:00:00 time in a msgbox, but when I use ShortDate or Longdate both MsgBoxes are empty.

8

Have you tried both Date and Xojo.Core.Date ? The latter should not exhibit the same bug.
http://developer.xojo.com/xojo-core-date

9

What version of Xojo are you using?

10

@
I’m using the latest version of Xojo.

@Michel Bujardet
I will try it with Xojo.Core.Date tonight or tomorrow.

11

And my usual trouble-shooting favorite: have you restartet the computer?

Sometimes Xojo gets into a state where it behaves weirdly. Restarts usually fix that.

12

It looks like a bug, as soon as I set my date region to the same as yours (English (Netherlands)) it comes back with a blank format.

13

Nicely spotted!

14

I think I read a bug report about that some time ago, but I was not able to find it on Feedback. At that time I think it was verified.

15

@
Thanks for verifying. Both of my Win10 machines have the same region so that would explain a lot.

I will file a bug report tonight.