# and #List functions date/timestamp encoding issue #32

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1. petrowsky commented on Feb 4, 2016

   

   petrowsky

   on Feb 4, 2016

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   Looks like you would need to have a file created from a different local
   and store it within a container and run tests against that file if you
   wanted to test it.

   On 2 Feb 2016, at 18:00, Dan Smith wrote:

   The # and #List functions encode dates in a specific local's format.
   If you attempt to read the encoded data on a file/system with a
   different local setting, it may fail with EvaluationError code 500.

   This value was encoded in a new file on a computer set to display
   dates as YYYY-MM-DD:

   "$ts = GetAsTimestamp ( \"2016-02-02 6:48:01 PM\" ) ;¶"
   

   If I download this
   file
   and open it on the same computer, I get this result:

   #Get ( "$ts = GetAsTimestamp ( \"2016-02-02 6:48:01 PM\" ) ;¶" ; "ts" 
   ) = "?"
   and
   EvaluationError ( #Get ( "$ts = GetAsTimestamp ( \"2016-02-02 6:48:01 
   PM\" ) ;¶" ; "ts" ) ) = 500
   

   I don't think this issue can be reproduced within a single file, which
   is probably why our current test cases haven't discovered it.

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