Localizing Dates, Times, and Metric Information

You can obtain a string corresponding to a date or time by passing the long

integer you get from the operating-system GetDateTime procedure to the

IUDateString or IUTimeString procedure. These procedures get the

localized information to format the data from the 'itl0' resource or 'itl1'

resource. The IULDateString and IULTimeString routines take a date

specified as a LongDateTime type and return formatted strings. These two

routines have not been previously documented in Inside Macintosh. For

interfaces to IULDateString and IULTimeString, see the

International Utilities Package Data. See Macintosh Worldwide

Development: Guide to System Software for comprehensive details on the

IULTimeString routines, you explicitly specify the handle of an

international resource that contains the format information. The IUMetric

function lets you find out whether the metric system is to be used.

IUDateString Fills out a string representing a short, abbreviated, or

long form of the date corresponding to the long integer

date returned by GetDateTime

IUDatePString Fills out a string representing a date corresponding to

the long integer date returned by GetDateTime by

using format information from the specified resource

IULDateString Takes a date specified in a LongDateTime format and

returns a short date, abbreviated date, or long date as a

string formatted according to the specified international

IUTimeString Takes a long integer time returned by GetDateTime

and returns a formatted string

IUTimePString Takes a long integer time returned by GetDateTime

and returns a string formatted according to the specified

international resource

IULTimeString Takes a time specified in a LongDateTime format and

returns a string formatted according to the specified

international resource

IUMetric Indicates whether or not the metric system is to be

used

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