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Re: System Date Format


  • Subject: Re: System Date Format
  • From: Krister Nyman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:50:15 +0200

Hi Try This One !

MacOS 9

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tell application "Finder"
activate
set the_months to "January February March April May June July August
September October November December"
set message_date to current date
set mess_year to year of message_date as string
set mess_day to day of message_date as string
set day_count to count characters in mess_day
if day_count = 1 then set mess_day to "0" & mess_day
set mess_month to month of message_date as string
repeat with x from 1 to count words in the_months
if mess_month = word x of the_months then
set month_count to x as string
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if x is less than 10 then set month_count to "0" & month_count
set date_format to mess_year & "/" & month_count & "/" & mess_day & "-" & time string of
(current date)
end tell

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Best Regards

Krister Nyman

Paul Berkowitz wrote:

> Does anyone know a shell script for getting the system short date and system
> time formats as set in System Preferences?
>
> There must be a way. There are apps which can access these from the system
> somehow.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
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