SDL_DateFormat(3type)

💖 SDL_DateFormat 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 DATATYPES corner of the manual, where we talk about SDL_DateFormat — literally just the date format that your current system locale is obsessed with. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

It's giving "what order do the numbers go in" and honestly? iconic.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta let the compiler know what's up:

#include <SDL3/SDL_time.h>

typedef enum SDL_DateFormat
{
    SDL_DATE_FORMAT_YYYYMMDD = 0, /**< Year/Month/Day */
    SDL_DATE_FORMAT_DDMMYYYY = 1, /**< Day/Month/Year */
    SDL_DATE_FORMAT_MMDDYYYY = 2  /**< Month/Day/Year */
} SDL_DateFormat;

so like, it's an enum, she's a typedef, and she comes with three whole moods. let's break them down 👑

• SDL_DATE_FORMAT_YYYYMMDD = 0 — Year/Month/Day. big-endian girlies rise up, the ISO 8601 girlies, the "sortable by default" queens. 💅
• SDL_DATE_FORMAT_DDMMYYYY = 1 — Day/Month/Year. the day comes FIRST, she's eager, she's ready. 🦋
• SDL_DATE_FORMAT_MMDDYYYY = 2 — Month/Day/Year. month leads the parade, no notes. 🌸

and that's literally the entire enum. three little ints, all besties, all valid.

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

This enum is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older, no she's not there, don't go looking, she hasn't been born yet. 😭

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• SDL_GetDateTimeLocalePreferences(3) — go read her next, she's the one who actually tells you which of these three formats your system picked. the enum is just the vocabulary, that function is the gossip. 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you understood it, periodt 💖✨

this little datatype page came to you courtesy of Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18, and she's filed under SDL_DateFormat(3type) — mwah, go forth and format your dates correctly, i'm obsessed with you 🎀💜