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> they will certainly have very different formats Not necessarily; as the article discussed, the format characters are part of a Unicde standard. Apple/Swift F
by wool_gather 8y ago
> they will certainly have very different formats
Not necessarily; as the article discussed, the format characters are part of a Unicde standard. Apple/Swift Foundation uses the ICU library[0] for the heavy lifting of date formatting, which is certainly widely available (by design).
[0]:http://site.icu-project.org/ http://site.icu-project.org/
- marcosdumay 8y agoThat reference seems to be offline at the moment... I don't think it's widely used. It is great that some standards body took that problem into their scope, but it may take a long while until most languages agree on anything here.
- tedunangst 8y agoYeah, what crazy obscure languages expose a binding to strftime???
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- saagarjha 8y ago> I don't think it's widely used. You may wish to look at this: http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Who-Uses-ICU- http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Who-Uses-ICU-