Using date and time utilities

TInternetDate class stores the date in universal time and provides the functionality to parse internet style dates in different formats into TDateTime and RFC 1123 dates. This class handles the 8-bit descriptors only.

TInternetDate supports the parsing of the following date formats:

• Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT, RFC 822 and RFC 1123

• Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT, RFC 850

• Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ANSI C's asctime()format

DateTime utilities provides the following time formats:

The following code fragment constructs a TInternetDate object from a TDateTime object. It converts the date '2006,EJanuary,17,06,36,30,000000' to the text form i.e. 'Wed, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:30 GMT'.

TDateTime time(2006,EJanuary,17,06,36,30,000000); //create a date time object
TInternetDate internetDate(time);
HBufC8* textDate = internetDate.InternetDateTimeL(TInternetDate::ERfc1123Format); //get the text form "Wed, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:30 GMT"
CleanupStack::PushL(textDate);
..................  //use textDate here

CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(textDate);

Use TInternetDate::SetDateL()to set the text from of the date. construct a TInternetDate object [date string] from a desciptor which contains date.

_LIT8(KTextDate, "Wed, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:30 GMT");
TInternetDate internetDate1; 
internetDate1.SetDateL(KTextDate); //set date time, "Wed, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:30 GMT" 
TDateTime time1 = internetDate1.DateTime(); // convert textDate to Date time format

The code fragment sets the text form of date, "Wed, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:30 GMT" and converts it to DateTime format.

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