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Re: needed for Zymail: a constrained date formatter

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Subject: Re: needed for Zymail: a constrained date formatter
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:13:02 -0700
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On 30-Nov-07, at 10:51 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:

>
> On 30-Nov-07, at 10:27 PM, Joe Strout wrote:
>
>> The code works well; the only hitch is that none of the date formats
>> (LongDate, AbbreviatedDate, or ShortDate) match what Mail displays.
>> Our LongDate includes the day of the week: "Friday, November 30,
>> 2007".  The next shortest is AbbreviatedDate, which leaves out the
>> day of the week but also abbreviates the month: "Nov 30, 2007".
>>
>> Mail uses an in-between format with the full month name, but no day
>> of week: "November 30, 2007".
>>
>> This is surprisingly difficult to do in RB.  The Date class doesn't
>> have a method to give you the month name as a string, and I can't
>> think of any particularly elegant way to get it from the system.
>
> I wrote some code to do this pretty accurately quite some time ago
> (it's 5.5 code)
> It's on my web site under
> http://great-white-software.com/day_n_month_names.zip

Calling strftime with appropriate values might do it as well :)
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