Re^2: Local Date Format

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Re^3: Local Date Format by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 22, 2005 at 16:41 UTC
The POSIX::`strftime` routine has several format specifiers (`%B`, `%c`, et al) which will behave correctly for whatever the current locale is. You don't need to worry about the components, just use one of these (`%x` for your particular question) and let it worry about it. See your platform's `man strftime` for more details on the specifiers.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Local Date Format by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 22, 2005 at 16:38 UTC
This really depends on the OS - on this here system I would probably start by grovelling around in the output from `locale LC_TIME` however this is not going to be portable and as you don't say what OS you are on you are unlikely to get a more useful response. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Local Date Format by gaal (Parson) on Feb 22, 2005 at 17:06 UTC
How portable do you need this to be? On unix, this oughta work, but is dirty: my $date_fmt = grep s/^date_fmt="(.*)"$/$1/, `locale -k LC_TIME`; You could do this in c (one hopes) on any POSIX system — possibly inlining it in Perl with Inline::C — with the `setlocale()` function; make the second paramater NULL to query the current locale.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Local Date Format by SmokeyB (Scribe) on Feb 22, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
Thanks gaal, this is a good start and I'll definately be exploring it!	[reply]