Get English date format from in foreign locale

[nhocjerry]

I have a date string in English format as follow "05 May 2013", I used QDate::fromString to create a Date object from this string, but if I run my program in another PC which system locale is Germany the QDate::fromString can not parse the string because QDate::fromString will be localized according to the system's default locale settings.

So how can I set the English locale as default to get the correct date string in any PC with any system's default locale settings?

[patrik08]

try:

QLocale locale () const
void setLocale ( const QLocale & locale )
void unsetLocale ()

and after reset default locale...

[anda_skoa]

You have two options:

- You can change the locale for your program, see QLocale::setDefault().
- You can create a QLocale object for an English locale and use it to parse the date string, see QLocale::toDate()

I would suggest you do the latter.

Cheers,
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[nhocjerry]

Thanks all, it works perfectly