Convert QDate to Qstring?

Question

I have trouble converting QDate to QString. See the code below:

cout << QString("\nBooking Date: %1").arg(QDate::toString(this->getBookingDate() &YYYY.mm.dd)

When I try to compile this it gives me:

‘YYYY’ was not declared in this scope

Yet the documentation says:

"Returns the date as a string. The format parameter determines the format of the result string..." and goes on to list the format strings.

I am new to Qt so if I am missing the obvious please excuse the ignorance.

Solution 1

You want this->getBookingDate().toString("yyyy.MM.dd"). For further info, read the documentation.

Solution 2

in PySide2 you can use this:

self.dateEdit.date().toString("yyyy.MM.dd")