Re: NSDateFormatter issue

[Stefan Bidigaray]

Hi David,

Just as a note, the GNUstep code relies heavily on the ICU library.

What version of ICU are you using? Would it be possible to test against a different version of that library? I'm not trying to pass the bucket, but we just use the output of ICU as-is for these functions.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Lobron, David <dlobron@akamai.com> wrote:

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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