Re: current date - 1 day?
Re: current date - 1 day?
- Subject: Re: current date - 1 day?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:27:43 -0700
On Feb 16, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Stephen Schaefer wrote:
Probably simple newbie question, so hopefully a simple answer: why
does "yesterday" result in "-86383" instead of 16 (as in today is the
17th, so yesterday would be the 16th)? Thanks
set theDate to current date
set d to day of theDate
set m to month of theDate
set y to year of theDate
set ts to time string of theDate
set yesterday to (d) - (1 * days)
set mesg to "Here's info about today:" & return & ,
"time: " & ts & return & ,
"day: " & d & return & ,
"month: " & m & return & ,
"year: " & y & return & ,
"yesterday: " & yesterday & return
display dialog mesg
Because you are subtracting 60*60*24 (i.e., 8600) from 17.
Yesterday should simply be d - 1
You would use - *1 * days) if you're subtracting one day from the date,
as follows:
set yesterday to day of (theDate - (1 * days))
-- Michelle
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