Re: Date problems
Re: Date problems
- Subject: Re: Date problems
- From: Tim Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:21:04 -0400
There was a nice bug fix in Cocoa scripting for Jaguar that now
correctly converts an AppleScript date to a Cocoa NSDate and
vice-versa. What a relief....
Tim Bumgarner
AppleScript Studio Engineering
On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 02:07 PM, Reinhold Penner wrote:
JD,
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...
...and now try this:
tell application "Finder"
set myDate to "Sun, 25 Aug, 2002 14:43:04"
set myDate to date myDate
end tell
I probably should have been more specific. This date conversion is in
a Studio application and it will fail as in the Finder example above
when running in 10.1.5. As I said, in Jaguar this problem is gone and
it just works. My problem is now to either tell the users to get
Jaguar or to come up with a solution that works on both 10.1.5 and
10.2. I have resorted to parse the string into an integer
representation that I can use to compare dates numerically on both
systems and have abandoned the date coercion.
-Reinhold
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