From 3621789a47154dd25ae948b2614238088bd98be7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WorldTeacher <41587052+WorldTeacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:34:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] string to date parser

---
 src/utils/stringtodate.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/utils/stringtodate.py

diff --git a/src/utils/stringtodate.py b/src/utils/stringtodate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be623a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/stringtodate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# import qdate
+from PyQt6 import QtCore
+
+
+def stringToDate(date: str) -> QtCore.QDate:
+    """Takes an input string and returns a QDate object.
+
+    Args:
+        date (str): the string of the date in the database, format: WDay Month Day Year
+
+    Returns:
+        QtCore.QDate: the QDate object in string format DD.MM.yyyy
+    """
+
+    datedata = date.split(" ")[1:]
+    month = datedata[0]
+    day = datedata[1]
+    year = datedata[2]
+    month = month.replace("Jan", "01")
+    month = month.replace("Feb", "02")
+    month = month.replace("Mar", "03")
+    month = month.replace("Apr", "04")
+    month = month.replace("May", "05")
+    month = month.replace("Jun", "06")
+    month = month.replace("Jul", "07")
+    month = month.replace("Aug", "08")
+    month = month.replace("Sep", "09")
+    month = month.replace("Oct", "10")
+    month = month.replace("Nov", "11")
+    month = month.replace("Dec", "12")
+    return QtCore.QDate(int(year), int(month), int(day)).toString("dd.MM.yyyy")