Re: Date problems
Re: Date problems
- Subject: Re: Date problems
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:59:57 +0100
At 9:36 pm -1000 25/8/02, Reinhold Penner wrote:
There's an additional headache with this, since I have no idea how
language-specific these date coercions are anyway. For example, if I
process myDate to something that can be coerced to a date on my US
system, will that also work on a user's computer that has French or
German date settings? If not, how can I convert the above myDate into
something that every Mac can recognize as a date?
For a long time now it has been possible to convert any
_unambiguous_and_valid_ string into a 'date'. You will be surprised
what will work. I've a feeling it has been even more flexible in the
past...
set ls to {}
repeat with s in paragraphs of "1
1 may
1 aug 2001
13 janu 1991
4 45
jul 16 03
1.1.1918"
set end of ls to date s
end repeat
set text item delimiters to return
ls as string
-----
(current date) - (date "1/1/1904")
will also give you the date as a number.
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