[SOLVED] Parsing CString YYYYMMDD into COleDateTime to get SHORTDATE?

Parsing CString YYYYMMDD into COleDateTime to get SHORTDATE?

I have a date in a CString: "20240415". How can I parse this into a COleDateTime? My goal is to format this as a short date.

I tried:

COleDateTime lastInstalledDate;
if (lastInstalledDate.ParseDateTime(strInstallDate, VAR_DATEVALUEONLY, LANG_USER_DEFAULT))
{
    strInstallDate = lastInstalledDate.Format(VAR_DATEVALUEONLY);
}

But the result was still: "20240415" instead of "15/04/2024".

Solution

I'd transform L"20240415" into L"2024-04-15" somehow, for example by inserting 2 hyphens and then simply use COleDateTime::Format:

    CString strInstallDate = L"20240415";

    strInstallDate.Insert(4, L'-'); strInstallDate.Insert(7, L'-');
    COleDateTime lastInstalledDate;
    lastInstalledDate.ParseDateTime(strInstallDate, VAR_DATEVALUEONLY);
    CString strFormattedInstallDate = lastInstalledDate.Format(VAR_DATEVALUEONLY);
    ...