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Re: parsing Unix date


  • Subject: Re: parsing Unix date
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:40:53 +0100

At 12:05 PM -0600 10/01/04, Christopher Stone wrote:
>At 02:16 -0500 01/10/2004, Graff wrought:
>
>>The time reported by the date tool is 02:06:34, the time reported by AppleScript's date coercion is 10:02:06. This is because AppleScript's date coercion is mistakenly taking the 10 which leads the string "02:06:34" as the hour
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>This is particularly surprising considering how prevalent the Unix date string format is in computing and considering that Mac OS X now sits on top of Unix...
>
>Perhaps Mr. Nebel will file it as a bug?

It's not clear for me how you can expect such a thing to work easily. There is only one UNIX date default format, while there are as many AppleScript date formats as localizations, or am I missing something?

Emmanuel
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