[Dojo-interest] A little confusion about dojo date time support

[Eugene Lazutkin]

You asked about the Date object, which is part of the JavaScript
standard. It is not part of Dojo.

The standard stipulates that months are numbered 0-11, but date (days)
are 1-31. Yep, it looks illogical to me too, but there is nothing we can
do about it now. You can bug Brendan Eich
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich) about that. ;-)

Thanks,

Eugene

Hui Jian He wrote:
> So 0 means Jan in new date()? Why it should like this? Anybody know the
> purpose of this design?
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> Hi,
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> The month in new date(..) is from 0 to 11.
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> Hui Jian He wrote:
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>> Hi All
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>> I have some confusion about the dojo date time support for culture
>> convention.
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> http://www.dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-3-programmatic-dijit-and-dojo/i18n/number-and-currency-formatting
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>> This is a sample:
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>> // the page must specify djConfig.extraLocale: 'zh-cn' to bootstrap
>> the environment with support for an extra locale
>> dojo.require("dojo.date.locale");
>> var d = new Date(2006,9,29,12,30);
>> // to format a date, simply pass the date to the format function
>> dojo.date.locale.format(d);
>> => "10/29/06 12:30 PM"
>> // the second argument may contain a list of options in Object syntax,
>> such as overriding the default locale
>> dojo.date.locale.format(d, {locale:'zh-cn'})
>> => "06-10-29 下午12:30"
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>> My question is why the data (2006,9,29,12,30) will be formatted to
>> 10/29/06 12:30 PM. Why the month will be added one?
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