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Re: FW: Order of listing month, day, and year in local date formats.
by Ulrich Drepper July 23, 1998

July 23, 1998

"Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona(a)dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes: > Do you know where I can get a list of the local year-month-day > orders used in each country? For example, the U.S. uses > month-day-year order. The POSIX locale desriptions ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection contain specification for many countries and in the LC_TIME category descriptions the field named d_fmt specifies a strftime format to print dates. -- ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------

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FW: Order of listing month, day, and year in local date formats.
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) July 23, 1998

July 23, 1998

Note that Dave Fabian is not on the time zone mailing list; please ensure that Dave receives any replies. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dave & Betty Fabian [SMTP:dfabian@sprynet.com] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 1998 3:58 AM To: Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Subject: Order of listing month, day, and year in local date formats. Dear Mr. Olson, Do you know where I can get a list of the local year-month-day orders used in each country? For example, the U.S. uses month-day-year order. Thank you, Dave Fabian

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RE: Order of listing month, day, and year in local date formats.
by Christophe PIERRET July 23, 1998

July 23, 1998

First of all , be aware of that : ================================= There can be more than one set of cultural convention in use in one country ! I don't know if Tibetans and Chinese use the same set of conventions ... even if they live in the same country. Proposed solutions : ==================== The easy way is to use your system's locale. In the C language, you could use the Windows NLS API or the C locale API to obtain these informations. You can also check POSIX locale definition file in the LC_TIME category. There is a repository of such files at: ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/WG15-collection/locales/ You can also make a poll on the internet news ;-) For Unix folks , I included the results of the second program (using windows NLS API) in the mail... Hope it helps ! ______________________________________________________ Christophe Pierret Software Development Engineer Windows Product Group Professional E-mail: cpierret(a)businessobjects.com Business Objects S.A. 1, square Chaptal, 92309 Levallois-Perret, FRANCE http://www.businessobjects.com ______ /_/_/_/| /_/_/_/ | /_/_/_/ | |_|_|_|Cube Team |_|_|_| / |_|_|_|/ Quick and untested example using the C locale (Unix like): ========================================================== #include <time.h> #include <locale.h> #define MAX_RESULT 512 void PrintDefaultDateFormat(char * localeName) { char result[MAX_RESULT]; struct tm* pMyTM; time_t ltime; time(&ltime); pMyTM = gmtime(ltime); setlocale(LC_TIME,localeName); strftime(result,MAX_RESULT,"%x",pMyTM); /* %x is default locale date format */ printf("Current date in locale %s is %s\n",localeName,result); }; Tested example using the Windows NLS API: ======================================= Using the Windows NLS API would give something like the following C program : #include <time.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <locale.h> #include <windows.h> #include <winnls.h> #include <winnt.h> typedef struct _myLocale_t { LCID locale; char * name; } myLocale_t; myLocale_t winLocales[]= { { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_AFRIKAANS,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_AFRIKAANS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ALBANIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_ALBANIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_BASQUE,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_BASQUE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_BELARUSIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_BELARUSIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_BULGARIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_BULGARIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CATALAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_CATALAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CROATIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_CROATIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CZECH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_CZECH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_DANISH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_DANISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ESTONIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_ESTONIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FAEROESE,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_FAEROESE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FARSI,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_FARSI" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FINNISH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_FINNISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GREEK,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_GREEK" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_HEBREW,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_HEBREW" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_HUNGARIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_HUNGARIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ICELANDIC,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_ICELANDIC" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_INDONESIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_INDONESIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_JAPANESE,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_JAPANESE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_LATVIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_LATVIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_LITHUANIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_LITHUANIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_NORWEGIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_NORWEGIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_POLISH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_POLISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ROMANIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_ROMANIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_RUSSIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_RUSSIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SLOVAK,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_SLOVAK" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SLOVENIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_SLOVENIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_THAI,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_THAI" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_TURKISH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_TURKISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_UKRAINIAN,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_UKRAINIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_VIETNAMESE,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),SORT_DEFAULT) , "LANG_VIETNAMESE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_SAUDI_ARABIA),SORT_DEFAUL T) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_SAUDI_ARABIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_IRAQ),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_IRAQ" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_EGYPT),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_EGYPT" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_LIBYA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_LIBYA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_ALGERIA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_ALGERIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_MOROCCO),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_MOROCCO" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_TUNISIA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_TUNISIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_OMAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_OMAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_YEMEN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_YEMEN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_SYRIA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_SYRIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_JORDAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_JORDAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_LEBANON),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_LEBANON" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_KUWAIT),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_KUWAIT" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_UAE),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_UAE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_BAHRAIN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_BAHRAIN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ARABIC,SUBLANG_ARABIC_QATAR),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ARABIC_QATAR" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CHINESE,SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL),SORT_DEFAU LT) , "SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CHINESE,SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED),SORT_DEFAUL T) , "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CHINESE,SUBLANG_CHINESE_HONGKONG),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_CHINESE_HONGKONG" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_CHINESE,SUBLANG_CHINESE_SINGAPORE),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SINGAPORE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_DUTCH,SUBLANG_DUTCH),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_DUTCH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_DUTCH,SUBLANG_DUTCH_BELGIAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_DUTCH_BELGIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_AUS),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_AUS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_NZ),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_NZ" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_SOUTH_AFRICA),SORT_DEFA ULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_SOUTH_AFRICA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_JAMAICA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_JAMAICA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CARIBBEAN),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CARIBBEAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_BELIZE),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_BELIZE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_TRINIDAD),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ENGLISH_TRINIDAD" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_FRENCH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH_LUXEMBOURG),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_FRENCH_LUXEMBOURG" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_GERMAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_GERMAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_GERMAN_AUSTRIAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_GERMAN_AUSTRIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_GERMAN_LUXEMBOURG),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_GERMAN_LUXEMBOURG" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_GERMAN_LIECHTENSTEIN),SORT_DEFAU LT) , "SUBLANG_GERMAN_LIECHTENSTEIN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ITALIAN,SUBLANG_ITALIAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ITALIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ITALIAN,SUBLANG_ITALIAN_SWISS),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_ITALIAN_SWISS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_KOREAN,SUBLANG_KOREAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_KOREAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_KOREAN,SUBLANG_KOREAN_JOHAB),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_KOREAN_JOHAB" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_NORWEGIAN,SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_BOKMAL),SORT_DEFAUL T) , "SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_BOKMAL" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_NORWEGIAN,SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_NYNORSK),SORT_DEFAU LT) , "SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_NYNORSK" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_PORTUGUESE,SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_PORTUGUESE,SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_BRAZILIAN),SORT_D EFAULT) , "SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_BRAZILIAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SERBIAN,SUBLANG_SERBIAN_LATIN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SERBIAN_LATIN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SERBIAN,SUBLANG_SERBIAN_CYRILLIC),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SERBIAN_CYRILLIC" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_MEXICAN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_MEXICAN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_MODERN),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_MODERN" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_GUATEMALA),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_GUATEMALA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_COSTA_RICA),SORT_DEFAUL T) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_COSTA_RICA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_PANAMA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_PANAMA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_DOMINICAN_REPUBLIC),SOR T_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_DOMINICAN_REPUBLIC" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_VENEZUELA),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_VENEZUELA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_COLOMBIA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_COLOMBIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_PERU),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_PERU" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_ARGENTINA),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_ARGENTINA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_ECUADOR),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_ECUADOR" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_CHILE),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_CHILE" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_URUGUAY),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_URUGUAY" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_PARAGUAY),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_PARAGUAY" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_BOLIVIA),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_BOLIVIA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_EL_SALVADOR),SORT_DEFAU LT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_EL_SALVADOR" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_HONDURAS),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_HONDURAS" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_NICARAGUA),SORT_DEFAULT ) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_NICARAGUA" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SPANISH,SUBLANG_SPANISH_PUERTO_RICO),SORT_DEFAU LT) , "SUBLANG_SPANISH_PUERTO_RICO" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SWEDISH,SUBLANG_SWEDISH),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SWEDISH" }, { MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_SWEDISH,SUBLANG_SWEDISH_FINLAND),SORT_DEFAULT) , "SUBLANG_SWEDISH_FINLAND" }, { 0 , 0 } }; void HandleError(char* name) { DWORD err=GetLastError(); switch(err) { case ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER: fprintf(stderr,"Insufficient buffer\n"); exit(err); break; case ERROR_INVALID_FLAGS: fprintf(stderr,"Invalid flags\n"); exit(err); break; case ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER: fprintf(stderr,"Invalid parameter for locale %s\n",name); break; default: fprintf(stderr,"Unknown error\n"); exit(err); break; } fflush(stderr); }; int main(int argc,char* argv[]) { LCID localeId; int nBytes; char * pData; int i; char * str[3]; int iStr = 0; int iBytes; for ( i = 0; winLocales[i].name!=0 ; ++i) { int dayFound = 0; int monthFound = 0; int yearFound = 0; localeId = winLocales[i].locale; nBytes = GetLocaleInfo( localeId, // locale identifier LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, // type of information NULL, // address of buffer for information 0 // size of buffer ); if (nBytes==0) { HandleError(winLocales[i].name); continue; }; pData = (char*)malloc(nBytes); if ( GetLocaleInfo( localeId, // locale identifier LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, // type of information pData, // address of buffer for information nBytes // size of buffer ) ==0) { HandleError(winLocales[i].name); free(pData); continue; } str[0]=str[1]=str[2]=""; for (iBytes=0, iStr=0 ; iBytes != nBytes ; ++iBytes) { switch (pData[iBytes]) { case 'd': case 'D': if (!dayFound) { dayFound = !dayFound; str[iStr++] = "Day"; } break; case 'm': case 'M': if (!monthFound) { monthFound = !monthFound; str[iStr++] = "Month"; } break; case 'y': case 'Y': if (!yearFound) { yearFound = !yearFound; str[iStr++] = "Year"; } break; } } printf("In locale %s , format is %s/%s/%s\n",winLocales[i].name,str[0],str[1],str[2]); free(pData); }; return 0; } Here are the result on windows NT 4.0 ( my machine !): In locale LANG_AFRIKAANS , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_ALBANIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_BASQUE , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_BELARUSIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_BULGARIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_CATALAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_CROATIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_CZECH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_DANISH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_ESTONIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_FAEROESE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_FARSI , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_FINNISH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_GREEK , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_HEBREW , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_HUNGARIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_ICELANDIC , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_INDONESIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_JAPANESE , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_LATVIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_LITHUANIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_NORWEGIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_POLISH , format is Year/Month/Day In locale LANG_ROMANIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_RUSSIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_SLOVAK , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_SLOVENIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_TURKISH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale LANG_UKRAINIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_SAUDI_ARABIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_IRAQ , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_EGYPT , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_LIBYA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_ALGERIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_MOROCCO , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_TUNISIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_OMAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_YEMEN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_SYRIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_JORDAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_LEBANON , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_KUWAIT , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_UAE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_BAHRAIN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ARABIC_QATAR , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_CHINESE_HONGKONG , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_CHINESE_SINGAPORE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_DUTCH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_DUTCH_BELGIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_AUS , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_NZ , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_SOUTH_AFRICA , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_JAMAICA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CARIBBEAN , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_BELIZE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ENGLISH_TRINIDAD , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_FRENCH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_FRENCH_LUXEMBOURG , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_GERMAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_GERMAN_AUSTRIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_GERMAN_LUXEMBOURG , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_GERMAN_LIECHTENSTEIN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ITALIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_ITALIAN_SWISS , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_KOREAN , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_BOKMAL , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_NYNORSK , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_BRAZILIAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SERBIAN_LATIN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SERBIAN_CYRILLIC , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_MEXICAN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_MODERN , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_GUATEMALA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_COSTA_RICA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_PANAMA , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_DOMINICAN_REPUBLIC , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_VENEZUELA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_COLOMBIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_PERU , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_ARGENTINA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_ECUADOR , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_CHILE , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_URUGUAY , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_PARAGUAY , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_BOLIVIA , format is Day/Month/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_EL_SALVADOR , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_HONDURAS , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_NICARAGUA , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SPANISH_PUERTO , format is Month/Day/Year In locale SUBLANG_SWEDISH , format is Year/Month/Day In locale SUBLANG_SWEDISH_FINLAND , format is Day/Month/Year Et voilà ! > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave & Betty Fabian [SMTP:dfabian@sprynet.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 1998 3:58 AM > To: Olson, Arthur David (NCI) > Subject: Order of listing month, day, and year in local date > formats. > > Dear Mr. Olson, > > Do you know where I can get a list of the local year-month-day orders > used in > each country? > For example, the U.S. uses month-day-year order. > > Thank you, > Dave Fabian >

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date formats
by Markus Kuhn July 23, 1998

July 23, 1998

Dave & Betty Fabian [SMTP:dfabian@sprynet.com] wrote: > Do you know where I can get a list of the local year-month-day orders > used in each country? For example, the U.S. uses month-day-year order. Local date format information is part of the locale data collection on <ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/locales/> specified in POSIX locale format. More and more users and countries are moving towards the international standard date notation YYYY-MM-DD described on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html so you might consider using just this one for simplicity and prevention of confusion. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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Daylight saving time in selected countries
by Israel Schorr July 22, 1998

July 22, 1998

Dear Sirs, I am looking for the Daylight saving time guidelines (i.e. gneneral role for start date and end date) in selected countries, which I didn't manage to find elsewhere. The countries are: Armenia Belarus Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzastan Latvia Lithuania Moldova Syria Ukraine I would appreciate any information. Thank You Israel Schorr

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joining the tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov mailing list
by Israel Schorr July 22, 1998

July 22, 1998

Dear Sirs, We would highly appreciate if you could join us the the tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov mailing list. Thank you very much. Israel Schorr Our E-mail addresses ischorr(a)barakitc.co.il zsilbinger@ barakitc.co.il

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tz problem with GMT leap seconds when the file "backward" is omitted
by Paul Eggert July 20, 1998

July 20, 1998

We discussed the following change as part of a proposed larger patch in late May when talking about the problems with sendmail 8.8.8 in Australia. The rest of the patch was done in a different way, but it seems to me that a fix is still needed for installations that want leap seconds, but also want to omit the links mentioned in the file "backward". Another possible fix would be to modify localtime.c so that it loads "Etc/GMT" rather than "GMT" to get the leap second info for GMT. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/backward,v retrieving revision 1997.10 retrieving revision 1997.10.1.1 diff -u -r1997.10 -r1997.10.1.1 --- backward 1997/12/11 17:44:35 1997.10 +++ backward 1998/05/24 07:28:25 1997.10.1.1 @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Link Africa/Cairo Egypt Link Europe/Dublin Eire Link Europe/London GB -Link Etc/GMT GMT Link Etc/GMT+0 GMT+0 Link Etc/GMT-0 GMT-0 Link Etc/GMT0 GMT0 =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/etcetera,v retrieving revision 1997.11 retrieving revision 1997.11.1.2 diff -u -r1997.11 -r1997.11.1.2 --- etcetera 1997/12/29 14:31:50 1997.11 +++ etcetera 1998/07/20 19:15:00 1997.11.1.2 @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT +# The following link uses older naming conventions, +# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward', +# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. +# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. +Link Etc/GMT GMT + Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu

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tzdata1998f.tar.gz
by ado July 20, 1998

July 20, 1998

The file ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998f.tar.gz is now available; this updates the "leapseconds" file to include the newly- announced insertion at the end of 1998. --ado

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leap second
by Denis.Excoffier＠ens.fr July 17, 1998

July 17, 1998

>From iers(a)hpvlbi.obspm.fr Fri Jul 17 15:37:46 1998 >From: iers(a)hpvlbi.obspm.fr Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:20:19 +0100 To: adresc1(a)hpvlbi.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 16 Content-Length: 2025 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE BUREAU CENTRAL DE L'IERS OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 17 July 1998 Bulletin C 16 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 1999 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 1998. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 1998 December 31, 23h 59m 59s 1998 December 31, 23h 59m 60s 1999 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: from 1997 July 1, 0h UTC, to 1999 January 1, 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 31s from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 32s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Central Bureau of IERS

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Bulletin C number 16
by iers＠hpvlbi.obspm.fr July 17, 1998

July 17, 1998

INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE BUREAU CENTRAL DE L'IERS OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 17 July 1998 Bulletin C 16 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 1999 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 1998. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 1998 December 31, 23h 59m 59s 1998 December 31, 23h 59m 60s 1999 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: from 1997 July 1, 0h UTC, to 1999 January 1, 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 31s from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 32s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Central Bureau of IERS

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