Re: current date - 1 day
Re: current date - 1 day
- Subject: Re: current date - 1 day
- From: Stephen Schaefer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:28:10 -0500
Thanks all. I was just fiddling w/ an example from Applescript in a
Nutshell (hence set d to day of theDate...just copying here), since
what I'm working toward is to building definitions of certain objects
by a range of today - N amount of days. Now I know.
On Feb 17, 2004, at 2:23 AM, John W. Baxter wrote:
On 2/16/2004 22:59, "Stephen Schaefer" <email@hidden> 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
The d variable now contains 17. This is measured in days from the
first of
the month.
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)
[1 * days is 86400, the number of seconds in a day.]
The yesterday variable now now contains 17 - 86400, or -86383
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
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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