B4J Question DatePicker and date format

[vmag]

- My date format is "dd.MM.yyyy" (my computer has it too)
- DatePicker displays 05/31/2020
- I do:

DatePicker.DateFormat = "dd.MM.yyyy"

and DatePicker displays 31.05.2020 (Excellent!)
- Next, I do:

Txt1.Text=DateUtils.TicksToString(DatePicker.DateTicks)

and get the result "05/31/2020 00:00:00"
- how do I get in Txt1.Text value "31.05.2020" i.e. how it DatePicker displays ???

 

[Philip Chatzigeorgiadis]

Use this:

    DateTime.DateFormat="dd/MM/yyyy"

 

[vmag]

Thank you, You helped me a lot! Isn't there an option to get a string with only a date and no time? And then I had to look for an additional procedure like this

 

[Philip Chatzigeorgiadis]

Try this:

DateTime.DateFormat="dd/MM/yyyy"
Txt1.Text=DateTime.Date(DatePicker.DateTicks)

 

[vmag]

To be honest, some points in B4J are illogical and I am put in a stupor, for example:

DatePicker.Datetics = DatePicker.Datetics - 1

is a transition to the previous day, and

DatePicker.Datetics = DatePicker.Datetics + 1

is not a transition to the next day, and it is not clear what...

 

[Erel]

Adding 1 to a ticks value will add 1 millisecond. Subtracting 1 will subtract 1 millisecond.

All the questions in this thread are answered in the date and time video tutorial: https://www.b4x.com/etp.html?vimeography_gallery=1&vimeography_video=256970493