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Re: Insert today's date?
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Re: Insert today's date?


  • Subject: Re: Insert today's date?
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:23:55 -0800

At 12:25 -0500 3/5/01, George Oliveira wrote:
>Can't find a command for AppleScript to create a new folder and name the
>folder with the current date in MM/DD/YY format.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.

The future is coming (one day sooner every day).

You've received two good answers, one of which slips in a reaction to the
following:

/ is not a good character to put into a Macintosh file name. As the Unix
path name separator, it *will* cause problems down the road.

(I started using YY-MM-DD in file names years ago, when A/UX came out.
A/UX: the OS you bought on a disk, rather than installing it.) The
YY-MM-DD sequence (or YYYY-MM-DD, although few people have Mac files from
before 1984, and even fewer from before 1992 sorts better in Finder.)

--John

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John W. Baxter, Port Ludow, WA, USA email@hidden
I'm trying to think, but nothing happens.


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