[Glass] Date reading and writing

[Johan Brichau]

Did you check out `printFormat:` ?
Probably not as extensive as what you can find in full i18n libraries but it does the job for us.

Overall, I think it’s better practice to never rely on `asString` to print anything to the user.

Cheers,
Johan

> On 31 May 2019, at 10:40, Marten Feldtmann via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, always a mess ... we wrote our own code ...
> 
> And as always ... Gemstone/S is based on ICU libraries, they have all stuff available to use these low-level mainstream libraries but they hide it everywhere ... it would be really nice, if they have a way of accessing their with the product delivered libraries.
> 
> As with TimeStamps - I decided to go with RFC3339 format - so our libraries in C#, Java, Python and Javascript are able to read these data.
> 
> 
> 
> Marten
> 
>> Jupiter Jones via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com <mailto:glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>> hat am 30. Mai 2019 um 02:38 geschrieben:
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>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I use a bunch of frameworks like Magritte, NeoCSV, NeoJSON and others that all write dates based on aDate-#asString (which formats dates in USA date format) and read based on Date-#readFrom: (which reads expecting USA date format).
>> 
>> Since the USA is the only country that uses this format, how is everyone else dealing with it?
>> 
>> Overriding date printing and reading in each framework seems counter-productive and fraught with error, as does replacing #asString and #readFrom: in Date itself.
>> 
>> There doesn’t appear to be Date related stuff in Locale, so I’m guessing I’m missing something simple here :)
>> 
>> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jupiter
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