Re: Format of date in document data

Chris,

I'm not sure what you mean by "are you really using." I'm just an OG user,
not from Omnigroup.

My statement was an empirical one; perhaps I should have said "OG seems to
use..." I simply looked at the examples in the OG stencil and experimented
a bit.

The developer docs say that NSDate uses Unicode date formatters. See
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Dat
aFormatting/Articles/dfDateFormatting10_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP400023
69-SW1 

- John Gersh



On 2/7/12 5:10 AM, "Chris Ridd" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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
>
>