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This property is obsolete. See the Remarks section below. |
Description
Use the Utilities.DateSeparator property to specify the character used to separate year, month and day in date values.
Declaration
Applies To
The property is applied to the following object:
Property Value
By default, DateSeparator holds the value which is specified by Regional Settings in the Windows Control Panel. To restore this value, call the GetFormatSettings method.
Remarks
Utilities.DateSeparator is obsolete and is supported for backward compatibility only. To get or set the date separator, use the aqEnvironment.GetLocaleInfo and aqEnvironment.SetLocaleInfo functions with LOCALE_SDATE as the second parameter.
JavaScript, JScript
var date_separator = aqEnvironment.GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SDATE);
Log.Message(date_separator);
Python
date_separator = aqEnvironment.GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SDATE)
Log.Message(date_separator)
VBScript
date_separator = aqEnvironment.GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SDATE)
Log.Message date_separator
DelphiScript
date_separator := aqEnvironment.GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SDATE);
Log.Message(date_separator);
C++Script, C#Script
var date_separator = aqEnvironment["GetLocaleInfo"](LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SDATE);
Log["Message"](date_separator);
Or, if you want to format date/time values using the locale settings, use the methods of the aqDateTime object. They use locale-specific date formats when parsing values.
See Also
Working With Dates
aqString.Format Method
aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr Method
aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr Method
aqConvert.DateTimeToStr Method
aqDateTime.Today Method
aqDateTime.Now Method

