Re: CTime getting skewed due to regional settings

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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:41:03 -0700
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Thanks Giovanni, that is very useful.

"Giovanni Dicanio" wrote:

"PRMARJORAM" <PRMARJORAM@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:EB8890C7-EB85-4B0A-8898-C86899935BB2@microsoft.com...

I am writing to a DateTime field but via a dynamically constructed SQL
statement:

[...]

String DateTime::ToDBString()const
{
struct tm timeinfo;
   char timebuf[26];

memset(timebuf,0,26);

errno_t errNo = localtime_s(&timeinfo, &mRawTime);
assert(errNo == 0 );

strftime(timebuf,26,"%Y-%m-%d ",&timeinfo);
return timebuf;

}

as opposed to previously using the ToString function which used the
following

   strftime(timebuf,26,"%x",&timeinfo);

[...]

Hope this makes sense?


OK, so you are sending date values to SQL Server using a string like this:

  YYYY-MM-DD

e.g.

  2008-07-14

which is ISO 8601 representation for dates.

SQL Server accepts that, and that format is locale/language independent. So
it is fine.
You can see the table shown here, too:

"Date and time formats for input"
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_datetime.asp

If you use Oracle, I'm not sure, but I think that you should use a syntax
like this to pass dates to SQL:

 to_date( <date string>, <date format> )

e.g.

  to_date( '2008-07-14', 'yyyy-mm-dd' )

or (no spaces):

 to_date( '20080714', 'yyyymmdd' )

So, you may want to define a custom function for that

<code>

CString ToOracleDate( time_t * rawTime )
{
    // Convert from time_t raw time to struct tm
    struct tm timeInfo;
    errno_t errNo = localtime_s( &timeInfo, rawTime );

    // Format date as yyyymmdd
    CString date;
    date.Format( _T("%04d%02d%02d"), // yyyymmdd
        timeInfo.tm_year + 1900,
        timeInfo.tm_mon + 1,
        timeInfo.tm_mday
        );

    // Use Oracle SQL syntax (to_date)
    CString oracleDate;
    oracleDate.Format( _T("to_date( '%s', 'yyyymmdd' )"), (LPCTSTR)date);

    return oracleDate;
}

</code>

to be used like this:

<code>

    time_t rawTime;
    time( &rawTime );

    CString oracleDate = ToOracleDate( &rawTime );

    // print for test:
    _tprintf( _T("%s\n"), (LPCTSTR)oracleDate);

</code>

The output is like this:

  to_date( '20080714', 'yyyymmdd' )

which should be OK for Oracle.

HTH,
Giovanni

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