Re: Date anomaly
Re: Date anomaly
- Subject: Re: Date anomaly
- From: Andrew <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:23:34 -0500
On 3/3/03 7:35 AM, "Nigel Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 2/3/03 10:33, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> set d to "1/1/1"
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> date d
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> --> date "Monday, January 1, 2001 12:00:00 am"
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> try
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> (current date) - (date d)
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> on error e
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> e
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> end try
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> --> Can't make date "Monday, January 1, 2001 12:00:00 am" into a
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> number or date.
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But:
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(date d) - (current date)
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will work. It is almost like there is some implicit coercion if the compiler
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spots "current date" earlier in the line than "date d" and tries to make a
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date into a date -- which begs the question why the coercion fails if you
this works as well
set d to "1/1/1"
date d
--> date "Monday, January 1, 2001 12:00:00 am"
try
(current date) - ((date d) as date)
on error e
e
end try
the value of (date d) doesn't appear to return be something of class date..!
The get command looks like it returns the right thing as does doing an "as
date".... Some sort of casting appears to be happening when that is done..
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