Re: Languages files

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Rob Burns wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could someone explain the arrangement of the NSEarlierTimeDesignations 
> and NSLaterTimeDesignations arrays. In the default Englsh file the 
> Earlier array has four entries and the Later array has one. does each 
> entry have a special designation?
No.

> or are they just a random collection of related words?

Pretty much.

> Can the arrays have less or more elements?

Yes.

> The only program I've seen that uses these arrays is GNUMail and it 
> does so by numbered elements. Are there any standard methods that use 
> specific elements of these arrays? Is there some documentation for the 
> keys in this file anywhere?

[NSDate-dateWithNaturalLanguageString:]  Have a look at the 
documentation and source for that method.