Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
- Subject: Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
- From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:55:17 +0100
+--> Daniel A. Shockley wrote 03-01-07:
> Basically, I would like to create a date - time stamp that ideally would
look like the following
IDEAL1: 01-06-03 09-23-21 AM (mm-dd-yy)
> IDEAL2: 2003-01-06 09-23-21 AM (yyyy-mm-dd)
I keep forgetting to optimize this handler:
set ideal1 to DateToString( "mm-dd-yy hh-MM-ss ?m", current date )
set ideal2 to DateToString( "yyyy-mm-dd hh-MM-ss ?m", current date )
Hmm, I've got a simpler (faster) format-date handler, which cannot
give you names of months or days, but it's pretty fast, just doing a
bunch of replaces,
+--
How about using Perl or other native Unix tools in OS X?
Getting the current time as a string of numbers is easy, by for instance doing:
do shell script "perl -e '$, = q(,); print localtime();'"
But I have so far not found a way to go the other way around, i.e
supplying a string and get a date. Or a way to take an AS date to a
unix date.
Does anyone know of a native way of doing these things?
(Just using AS to do "date aSuitablyFormattedString" has the
disadvantage of being dependent on the international settings for
short date, so that is not so good.}
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