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Re: getting the date

This solution should work fine. It is independent of any localization settings that you may have for date and time formats. I believe it requires AppleScript 1.9 or later.
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on ZeroPad(theNumber)
set theString to ""
if theNumber is less than 10 then set theString to "0"
set theString to theString & theNumber
return theString
end ZeroPad

set theDate to current date
set dayString to ZeroPad((day of theDate) as integer)
set monthString to ZeroPad((month of theDate) as integer)
set yearString to ZeroPad((year of theDate) mod 100)

set theDateString to yearString & monthString & dayString
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- Ken

On Dec 30, 2003, at 10:37 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"
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