Date formatting Xojo.Core

General
1

I can’t get the date in this format “10-9-2015” which was the format of the old .Shortdate format. If I use

bDate.ToText(Locale.Current, Date.FormatStyles.Short, Date.FormatStyles.None)

I get “10-9-15” while

bDate.ToText(Locale.Current, Date.FormatStyles.Long, Date.FormatStyles.None)

gives “11 september 2015”.

How to solve this?

2

If you need output different from any of the Xojo.Core.Data.FormatStyles then you’ll have to make it yourself:

Dim shortDate As Text shortDate = bDate.Day.ToText + "-" + bDate.Month.ToText + "-" + bDate.Year.ToText

3

Hi Paul,

I reckoned the answer would be like this. Thanks.

4

Xojo.core.date.format will respect your local settings.
If you change local short to full year you will get it.

Otherwise you have to rebuild the format as Paul’s tip.

5

Actually that was the System specified short date format which could vary from user to user & locale to locale