Get Date Format

[Jeff Barnes]

Hi,

Can someone please tell me how to get the date format?

What I would like to do is have a tooltip displayed when the user hovers over a date field showing them something like:

Format: mm/dd/yy

[hua]

I didn't test this but you can try something like,

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#include "set.ch"
cDate := set(_SET_DATEFORMAT)
 

[Jeff Barnes]

Thanks Hua.

That did it.

It appears that the date format does not match the settings in windows ... how can I do a SET DATE .... to match the windows date setting?

[hua]

> It appears that the date format does not match the settings in windows
Yeap. It's based on what we set in our app via the command SET DATE command

> ... how can I do a SET DATE .... to match the windows date setting?
Sorry, no idea. Have never done that before.

[FranciscoA]

Jeff:
Is it what you want?
oDateSystem:cTooltip:=cMonth(dATE())+" "+StrZero(Day(dATE()),2)+" "+Str(Year(dATE()),4)

[Jeff Barnes]

Actually what I want to do is to set the date in my app to match the settings in Windows Control Panel->regional and language options->Customize(button)->Date(tab)

I would like to match the "Short Date Format"