Re: Find a Month in a string

"Dirk Claessens" <No@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.82907d6912b5aaaf.59994@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I work for a European multinational, and users of my applications are
_forced_ to enter dates in ISO 8601 format, no matter where they live
or what their system settings are.

Then you've conflated two things that should have been kept separate:
storage and presentation.

Every user has his own setting for the presentation of dates. Windows
gives you that for free. Datetimepickers can be configured to follow it.

Storing dates should be done in some numerical format - or indeed ISO-8601
(readable text is _good_). But the user doesn't need to see that, ever. If
they themselves insist on ISO-8601, they can configure their Windows to
use it.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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