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Re: getting the date

On Dec 30, 2003, at 8:37 AM, Simon Kidd wrote:

Iam trying to make a folder with the current date, Ive found that:

set days_date to current date

gives me the date and time in this format "date "Tuesday, 30 December, 2003 10.34.27am""

is there a way of getting the date like so: "031230"

set days_date to (current date)
set short_date to short date string of days_date
set text item delimiters to "/"
set date_list to text items of short_date
set text item delimiters to ""
--the following assumes that the system is using US date format (m/d/yy)
--and that you want yymmdd
repeat with i from 1 to 2
set item i of date_list to text -2 through -1 of ("0" & (item i of date_list))
end repeat
set days_date to item 3 of date_list & item 1 of date_list & item 2 of date_list

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