Re: UNIX DATE
Re: UNIX DATE
- Subject: Re: UNIX DATE
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:08:40 +0100
John Mistler wrote on Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:15:24 -0700:
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Is there a simple way to convert an applescript date such as:
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date Friday, December 24, 2004 3:00:00 PM
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to
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a UNIX format such as
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2004-12-24 15:00:00
on dateToAUnixFormat(theDate)
set {year:y, day:d, time:t} to theDate
copy theDate to b
set b's month to January
set m to (b - 2500000 - theDate) div -2500000
tell (y * 10000 + m * 100 + d) as string
set sDate to text 1 thru 4 & "-" & text 5 thru 6 & "-" & text 7
thru 8
-- set sDate to it
end tell
tell (1000000 + t div hours * 10000 + t mod hours div minutes * 100 +
t mod minutes) as string
return sDate & space & text 2 thru 3 & ":" & text 4 thru 5 & ":" &
text 6 thru 7
-- return sDate & text 2 thru 7
end tell
end dateToAUnixFormat
dateToAUnixFormat(date "Friday, December 24, 2004 3:00:00 PM")
--> "2004-12-24 15:00:00"
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or
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20041224150000 ?
Uncomment the commented lines above and use each instead of the line
immediately preceding it. Alternatively, you could abbreviate the handler:
on dateToAUnixFormat(theDate)
set {year:y, day:d, time:t} to theDate
copy theDate to b
set b's month to January
return (y * 10000 + (b - 2500000 - theDate) div -2500000 * 100 + d as
string) & text 2 thru 7 of (1000000 + t div hours * 10000 + t mod hours
div minutes * 100 + t mod minutes as string)
end dateToAUnixFormat
dateToAUnixFormat(date "Friday, December 24, 2004 3:00:00 PM")
--> "20041224150000"
Paul Berkowitz wrote on Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:33:22 -0700:
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set s to ((date "Friday, December 24, 2004 3:00:00 PM") - (date "Thursday,
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January 1, 1970 12:00:00 AM"))
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set s to my Stringify(s)
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do shell script "date -ur " & s & " \"+ %F %T\""
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--> "2004-12-24 15:00:00"
It gives " F 15:00:00" on my machine. Changing the last line as follows
seems to work, though:
do shell script "date -ur " & s & " \"+%Y-%m-%d %T\""
NG
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