Re: date "Jan" --> date object
Re: date "Jan" --> date object
- Subject: Re: date "Jan" --> date object
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:40:54 -0500
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:53:13 -0800
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Subject: Re: date "Jan" --> date object
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From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
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> This from Emmanuel - dated 131102 01.02 pm:
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>> date "when may I do whatever I want?"
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>> --> May 1st
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I wish I could take some credit for the interesting side effects this
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generates, but almost anything on the Mac that tries to convert a
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string to a date using International Utilities will exhibit this exact
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behavior.
Speaking of International Utilities, it would be nice if the date object
had more powerful methods and properties for scripters to access, especially
with regards to GMT/UTC and to controling the display of a date as string.
It just seems silly that everything is based on the settings in the Date &
Time control panel, especially since there is no scriptable access to it.
There needs to be a way to get and set the month by integer, (as well as
the weekday). The are many algorithmic ways to do this, but they shouldn't
be nessesary. I believe most scripters would appreciate this ability.
For scripters with more advanced time-related needs, there should be a
simple coercion of a date to/from seconds since the era. There are also
vanilla ways to do this, but a nice built in coercion would be much better.
{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <
http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
}
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