How to specify format for wxAutomationObject date property Topic is solved

[sw]

I am reading meetings from Outlook using wxAutomationObject's and one of those properties is a DateTime, so to speak (it comes as a string).

The problem is that when reading it via wxAutomationObject.GetProperty, the format of date comes out as so:

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Mon Sep  7 12:00:00 2020

The equivalent VBA code (run in the Outlook VBA IDE) returns this:

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2020/09/07 13:30:00

Is there a way to specify the format of the date? Ideally a ISO date so I can use wxDateTime::ParseISOCombined()

The locale on the wxAutomationObject is set to:

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mOutlookApplication.SetLCID(MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US), SORT_DEFAULT));

Which is the same locale as Outlook is using...

[PB]

Do you really receive the property as wxVariant with type "string" and not "datetime"? If the Outlook property type is Date, should it not be returned as OLEVARIANT with VT_DATE? If so, wxConvertOleToVariant() should convert it correctly (the function does not handle VT_FILETIME), you could debug what happens there...

[sw]

It was a PEBKAC error...

I did not realize I could get a wxDateTime on the wxVariant. Thank you for your help @PB