Re: numeric date
Re: numeric date
- Subject: Re: numeric date
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:15:44 +0200
At 12:51 PM +0200 19/07/03, email@hidden wrote:
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>At 11:08 AM +0200 19/07/03, email@hidden wrote:
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>>The script below does the job, but does anybody have a better solution?
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>>set d to (current date) as text
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>>set m to word 2 of d
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>>set y to "January February March April May June July August September October November December"
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>>repeat with x from 1 to 12
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>> if word x of y is equal to m then exit repeat
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>>end repeat
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>>set m to x as text
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>>if length of m < 2 then set m to "0" & m
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>>set d to word 4 of d & "." & m & "." & word 3 of d
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>What's wrong with yours?
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It runs okay but I thought there could be simpler solutions.
Here is what is sometimes advised:
set d to (current date)
copy d to j
set month of j to January
set x to 1 + (d - j) div (28 * days)
it's only a bit shorter.
Oh, getting "word 2 of d" is no good, you should say "month of d as text" instead.
Emmanuel
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