Re: Format of date in document data

Chris Ridd <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:10:55 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.omnigraffle.user
Message-ID <CB56A7CA.27C16%[email protected]>
On 31/01/2012 14:36, "John Gersh" <[email protected]> wrote:

>OmniGraffle uses Unix date format specifiers within its own syntax for
>variables. To see this use one of the date format objects in the Variables
>stencil. For example, use the first one, showing "01/31/12" for today.
>(Localization may vary the format; this is what I see in the USA. You'll
>probably see "31/01/12".) Drag it onto the digram and double-click on it
>to show the underlying syntax. I see "<%Date %m/%d/%y%>." To get your long
>format, change it to "<%Date  %A %e %B %Y%>." That example has spaces as
>separators. As the original one shows, you can put whatever separator
>you'd like to use (slash, comma, etc.) between specifiers.
>
>For a full list of the specifiers, see
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_(Unix) .

Are you really using strftime() format strings or (more likely) Cocoa's
NSDate format strings? (I can't pin the documentation for the Cocoa ones
down..)

Chris