Re: string manipulation experts...

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From: Joker (no-spam_at_netzero.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:18:36 -0600

Dr John Stockton wrote:
> JRS: In article <#Rml0sXoEHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>, dated Thu, 23
> Sep 2004 10:39:58, seen in news:microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript,
> Phil Strack <philstrack@hotmail.com> posted :
>
>
>>I've inherited a production system that spits out logs that are named
>><AppName><Date>.log and <AppName>stdError<Date>.log where
>>AppName is the text name of the application
>>Date is in the format YYYYmd
>>and stdError is literal. (examples: application2004923.log,
>>applicationstdError2004923.log)
>
>
> That is very silly. Does 2004123 represent December 3rd or January
> 23rd?

Or does it mean March the 3rd?

>
>>The new naming convention is AppName-<Date>.log and AppName-<Date>-Err.log
>>where date is in the format: mmddyyyy. (examples: application-09232004.log,
>>application-09232004-Err.log)
>
>
> That is also silly; you should follow FIPS 4.4 & ISO 8601. Your
> predecessor tried to do likewise, but blundered. Use YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-
> MM-DD). YYYYMMDD is unambiguous everywhere, and can be sorted as a
> string.
>
> YYYYMMDD is easily obtained, for years in 1000 to 9999; let D be a
> CDate, form (Year(D)*100 + Month(D))*100 + Day(D) which gives a
> number in the range 10000101 to 99991231, and use the default conversion
> to string. Note that the unaided method fails for mmddyyyy; for that,
> you can use the rightmost 8 characters of 1E8 + (M*100+D)*10000+Y.
>

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