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Re: Applescript can't tell time?
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Re: Applescript can't tell time?


  • Subject: Re: Applescript can't tell time?
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:03:56 -0800

On 2/3/04 9:01 AM, "Robert Poland" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Why doesn't this script work?
>
> set nowDate to (current date)
> set nowTime to "" & time string of (nowDate)
> set bedTime to "8:59.00 PM" as text --> "8:59.00 PM"
> set nowTime to nowTime as text --> "9:57:26 AM"
> if (nowTime is less than bedTime) then
> set x to 1
> else
> set x to 2
> end if
> x --> 2
>
You're doing string comparisons, not time or number comparisons. (And, BTW,
'time string' is already a string so ' "" & time string' does nothing.
Similarly "8:59.00 PM" already is text, so 'as text' does nothing.) You're
also using a period instead of a colon in "8:59.00 PM" which could muddle
things if the hour and minutes were the same.

Doing a string comparison "9xxxxxx" is always going to be "greater" than
"8xxxxxx". AM and PM , or XM or piddleM at the end won't affect anything.

What you need use a time (integer) comparison:

set nowDate to (current date)
set today to date string of nowDate
set bedTime to date (today & " 8:59.00 PM")
if (nowDate is less than bedTime) then
set X to 1
else
set X to 2
end if
--> 1




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Paul Berkowitz
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