Convert "raw" seconds to an ASCII date string

long rawSecs ; seconds since 1/1/1904 (ala GetDateTime)

DateForm format ; 0=short form, 1=long form, 2=abbreviated

Str255 resultStr ; address of buffer to receive resulting p- string

IUDateString converts a date/time value into a string of text identifying the

corresponding date. International styles are taken into consideration for the

rawSecs is a long integer; the number of seconds since Midnight, 1/1/1904.

You can use any time value obtained from a file or catalog information

block (see PBGetCatInfo) or a value obtained via GetDateTime.

format specifies desired option in the output. It is one of the following

shortDate (0) Digits and separators: 10/1/1989

longDate (1) Long text: Wednesday, February 1, 1989

abbrevDate (2) Abbreviated text: Wed, Feb 1, 1989

resultStr is the address of a buffer. Upon return, it will contain the text of

the date as a pascal-style length-prefixed string in the format

specified by format and in the language and layout identified by

Notes: Use IUDateString and IUTimeString to prepare date and time

information for display. These functions rely on information from 'INTL'

resources 0 and 1 in determining how to layout the text of the output string.

A " programmer's" variation, IUDatePString lets you alter the data

structures to modify the output. For instance, you can force leading zeros to

be output or shorten or lengthen the abbreviation of months and days.

A related utility is Secs2Date, which converts a raw time value into

#include <Packages.h>

long todayNum;

Str255 todayStr;

GetDateTime( &todayNum ); [TOKEN:12074] or todayNum = Time */

IUDateString( todayNum, longDate, todayStr ); /* text w/o abbreviations */

DrawString( "\pToday is: " );

DrawString( todayStr );