Converting date to text

[lexx 1332]

Before I'll start making up some huge and complicated workaround...

 

... can anyone tell me if we have a simple way of turning the data aquired by "date" into something like this:

 

Quote

Tuesday, August 14th, 2035

 

The year is obvious, but do we have commands or macros to convert "8" into "August" and "14" into "14th" and the current day into "Tuesday"  or do I have to make up my own crapcode for this?

[HazJ 1288]

This maybe?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_timeToString

 

Edit: Never mind. I just saw your quote example.

 

Edit 2: Maybe this?

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_fixDate

[pierremgi 4739]

I didn't find a ready-made function.

Anyway:

 

// 2000 Jan 1st was Saturday
_monthes = ["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"];
_days = [" 1st"," 2nd"," 3rd"];
for "_i" from 4 to 31 do {_days pushBack " "+str (_i)+"th"};
_daysOfWeek = ["Saturday","Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday"];
 
fn_date = {
  _date = _this;
  private _year = param [0];
  private _nbrdays = 0;
  private _newDate = "";  
  for "_i" from 2000 to _year - 1 do {
    _nbrdays = _nbrdays + round linearConversion [0, 1, dateToNumber [_i, 12, 31, 23, 59], 0, 365, false];
  };
  _nbrdays = _nbrdays + linearConversion [0, 1, dateToNumber _date, 0, 365, false];
  _dayofWeek = _daysOfWeek select (_nbrdays mod 7);
  _newDate = _dayofWeek
  + ", "  
  + (_monthes select (_date select 1)-1)
  + (_days select (_date select 2)-1)
  + ", "   
  + str _year;
  _newDate  
};
 
_yourdate = anydate call fn_date;  // example:  date call fn_date

 

At least it works and you don't need extra script...

[Muzzleflash 111]

Your question prompted me to recreate strftime from C and Python in SQF. Almost all of the functionality is there, except the week numbers, timezone and microseconds. Your example would look like:

private _text = [
    [2035, 8, 14, 13, 37],
    "%A, %B %m%@O, %Y"
] call MF_fnc_DT_FormatTime;

// Now _text is: "Tuesday, August 8th, 2035"

To view the instructions and code click here , or click for the direct link to the file here.

 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Also already in game:

BIS_fnc_ordinalNumber

Offers some more functionality.

 

Cheers

[Muzzleflash 111]

4 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Also already in game:

BIS_fnc_ordinalNumber

Offers some more functionality.

Good find. From looking at the arguments, which have gender, I am guessing that is language sensitive to what language the user is playing in. I will test it later, but if so, I am not going to use that until I am sure it will not be confusing. E.g. mixing german or french ordinals with implicit english.

 

 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Yeah, other than that using/writing your own library is always the best option, you know what you get and enhancing functionality is as easy as second nature.

 

Cheers