Re: Format of date in document data

On 7 Feb 2012, at 2:10 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 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..)


We originally used -[NSDate =
descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale:], which takes =
strftime-style format strings (I don't know if NSDate uses strftime =
under the hood). Apple seems to have removed the detailed documentation =
of this method, although the method itself is still around, but you can =
find caches of it online by searching for "Date Format String Syntax =
(Mac OS X Versions 10.0 to 10.3)".

I don't know offhand if we're still using =
-descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale: in OmniGraffle or if =
we're translating the strftime-style date format into an ICU-style date =
format internally for use with Apple's current APIs. (We do make that =
translation sometimes.)