Re: current date - 1 day?
Re: current date - 1 day?
- Subject: Re: current date - 1 day?
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:23:39 -0800
On 2/16/2004 22:59, "Stephen Schaefer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Probably simple newbie question, so hopefully a simple answer: why
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does "yesterday" result in "-86383" instead of 16 (as in today is the
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17th, so yesterday would be the 16th)? Thanks
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set theDate to current date
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set d to day of theDate
The d variable now contains 17. This is measured in days from the first of
the month.
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set m to month of theDate
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set y to year of theDate
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set ts to time string of theDate
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set yesterday to (d) - (1 * days)
[1 * days is 86400, the number of seconds in a day.]
The yesterday variable now now contains 17 - 86400, or -86383
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set mesg to "Here's info about today:" & return & ,
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"time: " & ts & return & ,
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"day: " & d & return & ,
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"month: " & m & return & ,
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"year: " & y & return & ,
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"yesterday: " & yesterday & return
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display dialog mesg
Use either something based on
set yesterday to (current date) - (1 * days) --it's now a date type
or based on
set yesterday to d - 1 --it's now an integer number of days, and you'll
have problems on the first of the month
depending on which you want.
--John
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