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Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5
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Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5


  • Subject: Re: MacScripter's Magazine #5
  • From: Bert Altenburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:29:01 +0200

Arthur Knapp wrote:

>> Vittorio and I are happy to announce that the Spring 2001 Issue of
>> MacScripter's Magazine is available!
>
> This is a truely great issue. :)

:-) Thanks. Hope that the list members will read it and tell others to
read it too.

> The completeness of your coverage of working with date and time is
>just fantastic, and integrating that tutorial with a database
>tutorial is very clever.

All made possible by AppleScript.

>> Macscripter.net, a the great resource for applescripters:
>> http://macscripter.net/Magazine.html
>
> I have a query:
>
> On the page "Referring to an item", the statement
>
> set x to the weekday of the current date
>
>is seen to produce a 3-letter abbreviation for the weekday. You then
>state that using the coercion, "as string", will produce the full
>weekday name.
>
> On my system, (9.1/OS X), I only get the full weekday name. Does
>anyone know why this is?

> set testDate to current date
>
> weekday of testDate
> -- > Tuesday

I see the 3-letter abbreviation *only* if I use "display dialog". If I
don't use display dialog, the result window will show the full name.

> So it would seem that MacScripter team can work with 3-letter
>abbreviations, while I can't.

Like you, I can't use it with "set weekday of testDate to sun", so no
prerogatives.

>Is this a localization problem,
>a version problem, or something else?

I see this with both Dutch (yikes!) 9.04, as well as with International
8.5

No explanation, just some extra observations.

Bert


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