Bug in ShortDate

Daniel_Drijard · April 30, 2017, 10:04am

Hello,

The following shows a problem with ShortDate.

The code:
dim laDate as new date
print "Les dates: "
print " abbreviated: "+str(laDate.abbreviatedDate)
print " shortDate : "+str(laDate.shortDate)
print " longDate : "+str(laDate.longDate)
print " shortTime : "+str(laDate.shortTime)
print " longTime : "+str(laDate.longTime)

Le rsultat:
Les dates:
abbreviated: 30 04 2017
shortDate : 30/04/2015
longDate : Sunday 30 April 2017
shortTime : 11:27
longTime : 11:27:00

The date was correctly 30/04/2017. The year given by ShortDate is WRONG.
I use the last version of XOJO, 2017 release 1.1, on an iMac with OS X 10.10.5.

Cordially,
Daniel

Daniel_Drijard · April 30, 2017, 10:05am

The title should have been Bug in ShortDate

Michel_Bujardet · April 30, 2017, 10:29am

I don’t know where you found print in Xojo desktop… Unless you wrote to a file and omitted all the code before to render that possible. But I just did a global replace to system.debuglog, and here is the result :

dim laDate as new date system.debuglog "Les dates: " system.debuglog " abbreviated : "+laDate.abbreviatedDate system.debuglog " shortDate : "+laDate.shortDate system.debuglog " longDate : "+laDate.longDate system.debuglog " shortTime : "+laDate.shortTime system.debuglog " longTime : "+laDate.longTime

System Region set to French preferences.

Les dates: abbreviated : 30 Apr 2017 shortDate : 30/04/2017 longDate : Sunday, 30 April 2017 shortTime : 12:28 longTime : 12:28:55

Exactly the same result in a Console program where indeed, Print can be used.

iMac mid 2011, macOS Sierra 10.12.4, 2017R1.1.

I really wonder how you can get 2015 in there in only shortdate …

If you can reproduce the issue reliably, then it would be nice to post your project.

Simon_Berridge · April 30, 2017, 10:33am

And you don’t need the Str(). All those dates are strings anyway.

Emile_Schwarz · April 30, 2017, 10:54am

XojoScript ?

Greg_O_Lone · April 30, 2017, 12:36pm

Can’t be. Xojoscript doesn’t have dates.

Greg_O_Lone · April 30, 2017, 12:37pm

[quote=328421:@Daniel Drijard]Hello,

The following shows a problem with ShortDate.

The code:
dim laDate as new date
print "Les dates: "
print " abbreviated: "+str(laDate.abbreviatedDate)
print " shortDate : "+str(laDate.shortDate)
print " longDate : "+str(laDate.longDate)
print " shortTime : "+str(laDate.shortTime)
print " longTime : "+str(laDate.longTime)

Le résultat:
Les dates:
abbreviated: 30 04 2017
shortDate : 30/04/2015
longDate : Sunday 30 April 2017
shortTime : 11:27
longTime : 11:27:00

The date was correctly 30/04/2017. The year given by ShortDate is WRONG.
I use the last version of XOJO, 2017 release 1.1, on an iMac with OS X 10.10.5.

Cordially,
Daniel[/quote]
How about providing us with an actual project to look at, since the code you’ve written doesn’t run.

Richard_Gorbutt · April 30, 2017, 1:46pm

I ran the code as a console app in 2017 r1.1 and it works as expected, short date is 4/30/17 (here in the US).

José_María_Terry_Jiménez · April 30, 2017, 8:28pm

Here, in Spain the output is correct (same format that in FranceI) 2017r1.1 / 10.12.4

Les dates:
abbreviated: 30 abr 2017
shortDate : 30/4/17
longDate : domingo, 30 de abril de 2017
shortTime : 22:24
longTime : 22:24:45

Daniel_Drijard · May 2, 2017, 7:38am

I got replies seeming to indicate that my code is the source of the poblem, not “ShortDate” itself. My code is pretty long. I shall extract a small piece around the culprit and study it further. I shall transmit my results, hopefully in a few days.

Michel_Bujardet · May 2, 2017, 9:46am

So the code you posted is not the actual code ?

Daniel_Drijard · May 2, 2017, 10:47am

Michel,
Yes, the code I posted is the right one but there are some 5000 other lines in the program which should be disconnected from the problem. My print command/routine could be the culprit but I must extract the few lines relevant (50 or so) to be clear.

Michel_Bujardet · May 2, 2017, 11:27am

As you can see without your famous “print” method everything is just fine. Chances are it is indeed there that something is wrong.

Emile_Schwarz · May 2, 2017, 12:16pm

I checked Print, not Date or :(

Daniel_Drijard · May 3, 2017, 2:57pm

Question to Michel Bujardet:
I constructed a small program, TestingShortDate, which shows again the problem. It is of size 29 KB. How can I send it to you ?
Daniel

Tim_Parnell · May 3, 2017, 3:00pm

Put it in Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive and use the equivalent of “Share Public Link”

Daniel_Drijard · May 3, 2017, 3:10pm

Tim,
I am probably too old fashioned. I have no such “DropBox, Google Drive”. About “Windows…” I have nothing either. I suppose that “Share Public Link” is related to the objects mentioned earlier … and having an equivalent is further not possible.

Michel_Bujardet · May 3, 2017, 3:43pm

[quote=328996:@Daniel Drijard]Question to Michel Bujardet:
I constructed a small program, TestingShortDate, which shows again the problem. It is of size 29 KB. How can I send it to you ?
Daniel[/quote]

I PM you my email address

That said, have a look at dropbox.com Basically you subscribe for free to that service, and then it lets you upload files and if needed, share them as a download URL.

Such “cloud drive” is also very convenient to save data away from risks of all nature. I regularly save my programs sources that way, in addition to external drives.

Michel_Bujardet · May 3, 2017, 5:42pm

I did get your project I am posting here for others.

I see nothing in there that could explain the bug posted in OP.

Have you tried what I posted above ?

dim laDate as new date system.debuglog "Les dates: " system.debuglog " abbreviated : "+laDate.abbreviatedDate system.debuglog " shortDate : "+laDate.shortDate system.debuglog " longDate : "+laDate.longDate system.debuglog " shortTime : "+laDate.shortTime system.debuglog " longTime : "+laDate.longTime

I see you are using a RealBasic format. Under which version do you get this strange bug ?

Simon_Berridge · May 3, 2017, 6:08pm

I get the correct dates from the project also.