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


  • Subject: Re: Summary: Applescript can't tell time?
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:42:11 +0100

At 2:35 PM +1100 04-02-04, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>At 4:42 PM -0800 3/2/04, Andrew Oliver wrote:
>>How about:
>>
>>(current date) - (date "Thursday, January 1, 1970 12:00:00 AM")
>>
>>--> 1.075826495E+9
>>
>
>It looks like Andrew posted a compiled line of code. Short forms of the date work equally well.

You are right, but then you make assumptions regarding the user's settings: if you change your System Preferences > International > Date settings to "Year-Month-Day",

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set s to "1/1/1970"
date s --> Invalid blah blah
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Of course, if the OS is not set to the English or an English-based language, date "Thursday, whatever" will fail also.

Finally, I don't know another way of getting a given date without making assumptions on the user's language nor settings (except resorting to do shell script) than:

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set d to current date
set day of d to 1
set month of d to January
set year of d to 1970
set time of d to 0
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(If AppleScript implemented AppleScript, you could say "set properties of d to {day:1, ...}" but this upsets poor lil' stack)

Emmanuel
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 >Re: Summary: Applescript can't tell time? (From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Summary: Applescript can't tell time? (From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>)

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