Android Question Converting a string

Sergey_New

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Please tell me how to convert the string "21/01/2020" to "01/21/2020".
I need this to get ticks from a date in "MM.dd.yyyy" format using DateTime.DateParse
 
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emexes said:
GEDCOM files
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If the original data is dates, then is usually better to keep it as dates, rather than needlessly converting it to ticks and back, because sometimes that doesn't work the way you'd expect, eg if the conversion to ticks is encoded on a device with one time zone setting and decoded on another device that has a different time zone setting, or you have date ranges crossing daylight-savings boundaries.
 
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Sergey_New

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Now you are familiar with the GEDCOM standard
I have attached a working example.
The example sets out my request.
Oops.
Forgot to delete comments. The example works correctly.
 

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sometimes that doesn't work the way you'd expect
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Example: today is 24 years since 911 but fall of north tower on 11-Sep-2001 actually happened here on 12-Sep-2001.

Albeit not by much: I remember watching the first tower fall, and then there was a click and the tv went dead which freaked me out a bit, until I realised it was the powerpoint timer that I'd set up to turn the tv off every midnight to deal with my habit of falling asleep in front of the tv.
 
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Lucas Siqueira

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Sergey_New said:
Please tell me how to convert the string "21/01/2020" to "01/21/2020".
I need this to get ticks from a date in "MM.dd.yyyy" format using DateTime.DateParse
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I created some formatting and conversions of dates and other formats

[B4X] BR_FunctionsUtils, BR Functions Utils

Functions created by Brazilians that can be useful for everyone. BR_FunctionsUtils Autor: Lucas Siqueira Versão: 1.0 V1.00 -Release -Funções Formatar * somenteNumeros("R$ 2.500,00") --> "250000" * telefone("99999999999") --> (99) 99999-9999 *...
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B4X: 
Dim date1 As String = "21/01/2020"
Dim date2 As String = br.data.data(date1, "dd/MM/yyyy", "MM/dd/yyyy")
Log("date1: " & date1)
Log("date2: " & date2)
 
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