Re: NSDateFormatter issue

[Lobron, David]

Hi Niels (also also Stefan, who replied offline),

I tried changing the order of the setters, but that did not appear to make a 
difference.  I also tried calling the setter methods instead of setting the 
ivars:

[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];

rather than 

dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle; 

However, I'm still getting the incorrect format.  The code in NSDateFormatter 
seems fine to me, too (this is the 1.24.8 codeline).  But I still get:

dateStr = 20010102 09:00 AM, refStr = Jan 2, 2001, 9:00:00 AM

I will keep digging into it.

Thank you for the help so far,

David

> On Mar 13, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Niels Grewe <niels.grewe@halbordnung.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> just a small pointer wrt this: I vaguely recall having seen a similar 
> phenomenon in the past, where it turned out that our NSDateFormatter 
> implementation was sensitive to the order in which you called the setters. I 
> was under the impression that that problem had been fixed -- but maybe 
> there's a bug still hiding in there...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niels
> 
> Von: dlobron@akamai.com
> Gesendet: 13. März 2017 4:33 nachm.
> An: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Betreff: NSDateFormatter issue
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been working to get the NSDateFormatter class working with my company's 
> GNUStep version, which is based on GNUStep-1.24.8 for GNU/Linux.  I updated 
> my build flags to signal that libicu should be used, and I verified with 
> print statements that NSDateFormatter's GS_USE_ICU variable is set to true.  
> 
> However, when I try to format an NSDate object, I'm finding that although the 
> date is correct, the format never changes.  My test code looks like this:
> 
>     NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter new] autorelease];
>     dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle;
>     dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle;
>     [dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];
>     NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:118800];
>     dateFormatter.locale = [[NSLocale alloc] 
> initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
>     NSString *dateStr = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
>     NSString *refStr = @"Jan 2, 2001, 9:00:00 AM";
>     NSLog(@"dateStr = %@, refStr = %@", dateStr, refStr);
> 
> But it prints the following:
> 
> dateStr = 20010102 09:00 AM, refStr = Jan 2, 2001, 9:00:00 AM
> 
> On a Mac, by contrast, dateStr has the correct format:
> 
> 2017-03-13 11:30:03.081 testNsDateFormatter[6357:607704] dateStr = Jan 2, 
> 2001, 9:00:00 AM, refStr = Jan 2, 2001, 9:00:00 AM
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?  If not, I will dig deeper into 
> NSDateFormatter and also check libicu.  I tend to think libicu is not the 
> problem, because it runs a lot of internal tests on the udat_format function, 
> which is what NSDateFormatter is calling, and I've confirmed that the format 
> tests pass when run within libicu.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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