Campbell Ritchie wrote:Are those date/time formats? I would have thought they are date/time display formats, or parsing formats. That sounds a bit like an internationalisation problem...
Thanks Campbell. Yes these are display formats to demonstrate a formatting problem we encountered on a project. The program would read and process a Text file (or XML file) as an import of remote/branch transactions for data processing. This input file stored the dates as strings in a comma delimited file. These files were generated on different computers, and the date format of the resultant strings would vary (MM/DD/YYYY vs. DD/MM/YYYY etc.) based on the System Locale settings of the individual workstations used to generate the transaction file(s) for processing. The issue was detected during
testing, but it required the addition of a "Locale Settings" check via the program before exporting files. But, this is an example of a real world date/time formatting issue we encountered that needed to be addressed.
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