shortFormat
shortFormat(): String;
The shortFormat method of the Date primitive type returns the receiver as a string formatted in the short date format. The following example shows the use of the shortFormat method.
testDateShort(); vars date : Date; begin write "The date is " & date.shortFormat; end;
The output from this example depends on the short format defined for the current locale; for example, it may write The date is 31/8/99.
You can use the
The shortFormat method returns "*invalid*" for dates before 1601 or after 30827.
If you do not define the
Formatting of locale data is done on the application server, based on the locale of the corresponding presentation client. For example, if the locale of your application server is set to English (United Kingdom), which has a default short date format of dd/MM/yyyy, and it has been overridden with a short date format of yyyy-MM-dd, this is returned in the default dd/MM/yyyy format.