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*#For example, in Delphi, "nn" means "minutes" for Cumulus 1, but "minutes" is "mm" for .Net in Cumulus MX. | *#For example, in Delphi, "nn" means "minutes" for Cumulus 1, but "minutes" is "mm" for .Net in Cumulus MX. | ||
*# e.g. the hour in 24-hour format, is "hh" in Delphi (Cumulus 1) and in .Net it's "HH" (Cumulus MX). | *# e.g. the hour in 24-hour format, is "hh" in Delphi (Cumulus 1) and in .Net it's "HH" (Cumulus MX). | ||
*You might be put off by references for .Net (Cumulus MX) to single/standard characters and custom modifiers: | |||
*The other change with the "format" parameter is the different way that .Net escapes characters that are not being used as format specifiers. In Delphi you put the 'verbatim' characters inside single quotes (Cumulus 1); in .Net you escape each verbatim character with | *#For example ''<#MonthTempHD format="d">'' is a single character format modifier, therefore the 'd' acts as a standard modifier, and causes a date of 22 July 2014 for the highest temperature in the month to be returned in the standard short date format e.g. '22/07/2014' (exact contents for any one date vary by locale). | ||
For full details see [http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12908 Cumulus MX forum], the following table is | *#Similarly ''<#MonthTempHD format="M">'' is a single character format modifier and therefore the 'M' acts as a standard modifier and causes the date for the highest temperature in the month to be returned in the standard day and month format e.g. '22 July' (exact contents for any one date vary by locale). | ||
*#Whilst ''<#metdate format="d M">'' is not a single character format modifier and therefore both the 'd' and the 'M' are interpreted as custom modifiers and cause the current date to be returned as a digit(s) for the day and a digit(s) month (in a without leading zeroes format) e.g. '6 7' would be returned for 6 July. | |||
*The other change with the "format" parameter is the different way that .Net escapes characters that are not being used as format specifiers. In Delphi you can put the 'verbatim' characters inside single quotes (Cumulus 1); in .Net you can still use single quotes, but alternatively you can escape each verbatim character with a backslash as prefix (Cumulus MX). | |||
For official full details see [http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12908 Cumulus MX forum], the following table is revised for simplicity. (I've abridged the table here so I do not need to say any more about standard characters and custom modifiers just for looking at date / time format). | |||
== List of allowed modifiers == | == List of allowed modifiers == | ||