| Re: How to loop through the dates? [message #186144 is a reply to message #186131] |
Mon, 16 June 2014 16:19   |
Mr Oldies
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:34:19 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <1la17b-rhh(dot)ln1(at)luuk(dot)invalid(dot)lan>, Luuk <luuk(at)invalid(dot)lan>
> wrote:
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>> On 15-6-2014 21:30, Tim Streater wrote:
>>> Then for output,
>>>
>>> echo date ('M jS, Y', $value);
>>>
>>> will output the date in a suitable format.
>>
>> only if you live in a country where they put the month first......
>>
>> here, where i live, the do day-month-year (15-06-2014)
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> So do I. But richard appears to assume that his website is only to be
> seen by Yanks. The string I put above for date is acceptable to me,
> however, in as much as it leads to an unambiguous date such as:
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> Jun 8th, 2014
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> unlike:
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> 06-08-2014
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> which certainly *is* ambiguous.
As y'all like to kindly point out, "Read the frickin manual!".
The options allow you to show the date in ANY format you want.
For my pusposes, I chose that format because the leading numbers will be
the first to change. Making it easier for the code to spot the changes.
As I learned to do in BASIC.
Sometimes, when you have a very long variable name, and only change the
last character to differenitate two variables, the machine may have
problems.
Now if you have the leading character change, no problems.
ThisisoeverylongstringnameA
ThisisoeverylongstringnameB
As compared to:
AThisisoeverylongstringname
BThisisoeverylongstringname
FYI, redcoat, my website that is visible to the public does not use this
format for dates.
I use this format ONLY in my tables.
Kindly note that on my home page, I show the format as
16th of June,2014.
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