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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: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:57:49 -0400

> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:42:28 +0200
> Subject: MacScripter's Magazine #5
> From: altenburg <email@hidden>


> Vittorio and I are happy to announce that the Spring 2001 Issue of
> MacScripter's Magazine is available!

This is a truely great issue. :)

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.

> 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?

It is also interesting to note that at the Language Guide,
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/InterproCom/AppleScriptScripters
/AppleScriptLangGuide/> , they define weekday as:

"One of the constants Monday, Tuesday, " ... "or Mon, Tue, " ...

but when I attempt to use a 3-letter abbreviation, I get a runtime
error:

set testDate to current date

weekday of testDate
-- > Tuesday

set weekday of testDate to Sun
-- execution error : "The variable Sun is not defined."


So it would seem that MacScripter team can work with 3-letter
abbreviations, while I can't. Is this a localization problem,
a version problem, or something else?



Arthur J. Knapp
http://www.stellarvisions.com
mailto:email@hidden

Hey, check out:
http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/


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