// Purpose: interface of wxDateTime
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
in 'free' format, i.e. allow them to be specified in any of possible ways.
These functions will usually be used to parse the (interactive) user input
which is not bound to be in any predefined format. As an example,
- ParseDateTime() can parse the strings such as "tomorrow", "March first" and
+ ParseDate() can parse the strings such as "tomorrow", "March first" and
even "next Sunday".
Finally notice that each of the parsing functions is available in several
Returns the ordinal number of the week in the month (in 1-5 range).
As GetWeekOfYear(), this function supports both conventions for the
- week start. See the description of these @c WeekFlags in the
- @ref datetime_constants section.
+ week start.
*/
wxDateTime_t GetWeekOfMonth(WeekFlags flags = Monday_First,
const TimeZone& tz = Local) const;
year. Accordingly, the week number will always be in 1-53 range (52 for
non-leap years).
- The function depends on the @ref datetime_constants "week start"
- convention specified by the @a flags argument but its results for
- @c Sunday_First are not well-defined as the ISO definition quoted above
- applies to the weeks starting on Monday only.
+ The function depends on the week start convention specified by the @a flags
+ argument but its results for @c Sunday_First are not well-defined as the
+ ISO definition quoted above applies to the weeks starting on Monday only.
*/
wxDateTime_t GetWeekOfYear(WeekFlags flags = Monday_First,
const TimeZone& tz = Local) const;
/**
This function is like ParseDateTime(), but it only allows the date to
- be specified. It is thus less flexible then ParseDateTime(), but also
- has less chances to misinterpret the user input.
+ be specified.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
+ It is thus less flexible then ParseDateTime(), but also has less
+ chances to misinterpret the user input.
- @see Format()
- */
- const char* ParseDate(const wxString& date,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseDate(const char* date);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ @see Format()
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseDate(const wchar_t* date);
+ bool ParseDate(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
Parses the string @a datetime containing the date and time in free
- format. This function tries as hard as it can to interpret the given
- string as date and time. Unlike ParseRfc822Date(), it will accept
- anything that may be accepted and will only reject strings which can
- not be parsed in any way at all.
+ format.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
- */
- const char* ParseDateTime(const wxString& datetime,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
+ This function tries as hard as it can to interpret the given string as
+ date and time. Unlike ParseRfc822Date(), it will accept anything that
+ may be accepted and will only reject strings which can not be parsed in
+ any way at all. Notice that the function will fail if either date or
+ time part is present but not both, use ParseDate() or ParseTime() to
+ parse strings containing just the date or time component.
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const char* ParseDateTime(const char* datetime);
-
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const wchar_t* ParseDateTime(const wchar_t* datetime);
+ bool ParseDateTime(const wxString& datetime, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This function parses the string @a date according to the given
@a dateDef. If it is not specified, Today() is used as the default
date.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
+ Example of using this function:
+ @code
+ wxDateTime dt;
+ wxString str = "...";
+ wxString::const_iterator end;
+ if ( !dt.ParseFormat(str, "%Y-%m-%d", &end) )
+ ... parsing failed ...
+ else if ( end == str.end() )
+ ... entire string parsed ...
+ else
+ ... wxString(end, str.end()) left over ...
+ @endcode
+
+ @param date
+ The string to be parsed.
+ @param format
+ strptime()-like format string.
+ @param dateDef
+ Used to fill in the date components not specified in the @a date
+ string.
+ @param end
+ Will be filled with the iterator pointing to the location where the
+ parsing stopped if the function returns @true. If the entire string
+ was consumed, it is set to @c date.end(). Notice that this argument
+ must be non-@NULL.
+ @return
+ @true if at least part of the string was parsed successfully,
+ @false otherwise.
@see Format()
*/
- const char* ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
+ const wxString& format,
+ const wxDateTime& dateDef,
+ wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
@overload
*/
- const char* ParseFormat(const char* date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
+ const wxString& format,
+ wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
@overload
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseFormat(const wchar_t* date,
- const wxString& format = wxDefaultDateTimeFormat,
- const wxDateTime& dateDef = wxDefaultDateTime);
+ bool ParseFormat(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This function parses the string containing the date and time in ISO
string which is not RFC 822 compliant. If you need to parse date
formatted in more free ways, you should use ParseDateTime() or
ParseDate() instead.
- */
- const char* ParseRfc822Date(const wxString& date,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseRfc822Date(const char* date);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseRfc822Date(const wchar_t* date);
+ bool ParseRfc822Date(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end);
/**
This functions is like ParseDateTime(), but only allows the time to be
specified in the input string.
- @return @NULL if the conversion failed, otherwise return the pointer
- to the character which stopped the scan.
- */
- const char* ParseTime(const wxString& time,
- wxString::const_iterator* end = NULL);
-
- /**
- @overload
- */
- const char* ParseTime(const char* time);
-
- /**
- @overload
+ See ParseFormat() for the description of function parameters and return
+ value.
*/
- const wchar_t* ParseTime(const wchar_t* time);
+ bool ParseTime(const wxString& time, wxString::const_iterator *end);
//@}
static int GetCurrentYear(Calendar cal = Gregorian);
/**
- Gets the full (default) or abbreviated (specify @c Name_Abbr name of
- the given month.
+ Return the standard English name of the given month.
+
+ This function always returns "January" or "Jan" for January, use
+ GetMonthName() to retrieve the name of the month in the users current
+ locale.
+
+ @param month
+ One of wxDateTime::Jan, ..., wxDateTime::Dec values.
+ @param flags
+ Either Name_Full (default) or Name_Abbr.
+
+ @see GetEnglishWeekDayName()
+
+ @since 2.9.0
+ */
+ static wxString GetEnglishMonthName(Month month,
+ NameFlags flags = Name_Full);
+
+ /**
+ Return the standard English name of the given week day.
+
+ This function always returns "Monday" or "Mon" for Monday, use
+ GetWeekDayName() to retrieve the name of the month in the users current
+ locale.
+
+ @param weekday
+ One of wxDateTime::Sun, ..., wxDateTime::Sat values.
+ @param flags
+ Either Name_Full (default) or Name_Abbr.
+
+ @see GetEnglishMonthName()
+
+ @since 2.9.0
+ */
+ static wxString GetEnglishWeekDayName(WeekDay weekday,
+ NameFlags flags = Name_Full);
+
+ /**
+ Gets the full (default) or abbreviated name of the given month.
+
+ This function returns the name in the current locale, use
+ GetEnglishMonthName() to get the untranslated name if necessary.
+
+ @param month
+ One of wxDateTime::Jan, ..., wxDateTime::Dec values.
+ @param flags
+ Either Name_Full (default) or Name_Abbr.
@see GetWeekDayName()
*/
static tm* GetTmNow();
/**
- Gets the full (default) or abbreviated (specify @c Name_Abbr) name of
- the given week day.
+ Gets the full (default) or abbreviated name of the given week day.
+
+ This function returns the name in the current locale, use
+ GetEnglishWeekDayName() to get the untranslated name if necessary.
+
+ @param weekday
+ One of wxDateTime::Sun, ..., wxDateTime::Sat values.
+ @param flags
+ Either Name_Full (default) or Name_Abbr.
@see GetMonthName()
*/
static wxString GetWeekDayName(WeekDay weekday,
- NameFlags flags = Name_Full);
+ NameFlags flags = Name_Full);
/**
Returns @true if DST was used in the given year (the current one by
Sets the country to use by default. This setting influences the DST
calculations, date formatting and other things.
- The possible values for @a country parameter are enumerated in the
- @ref datetime_constants section.
-
@see GetCountry()
*/
static void SetCountry(Country country);
*/
const wxDateTime wxDefaultDateTime;
+/*
+ wxInvalidDateTime is an alias for wxDefaultDateTime.
+*/
+#define wxInvalidDateTime wxDefaultDateTime
/**