Re: dateTime Manupulations

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From: Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] (hirf-spam-me-here_at_gmx.at)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:35:50 +0200

"Cor Ligthert" <notmyfirstname@planet.nl> schrieb:
> Are you Jay's advocacy.

In this case yes, because he is right.

> When Jay can not speak for himself than show me in those threads that the
> OP's exaplictly wanted a conversion
> between a culture. I saw only conversions between types.

I /never/ talked about conversions between cultures. The OPs were asking
for a *converstion of a string representing a date in a specific format to a
'Date'*. The problem is completely independent from cultures. The problem
is about parsing a date string without caring about the culture, but by
providing a format string.

> This is your sentence in the thread before that.
>>'CDate' is locale-aware and will return different results for "10/10/1999"
>>on machines with different date formats.
>
> When you and Jay want to hard code a dateformat in a program,
> it is fine, I keep telling in this newsgroup to use as posible as
> can the globalization settings.

That's something different we are not talking about, because the OP doesn't
need that. Jay gave an excellent sample where parsing date strings in a
specific format is a requirement:

<URL:http://www.google.de/groups?selm=O40B7BUtEHA.636%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>

You either missed the post or ignored it. 

-- 
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

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