Re: Date/time weirdness
Re: Date/time weirdness
- Subject: Re: Date/time weirdness
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:36:04 -0700
On 7/29/04 7:42 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Exactly what is going on here?
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set foo to "16/15/14"
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date foo
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--> date "Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:15:14 PM"
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The minutes and seconds correspond to the last two integers expressed
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in the string. The hours vary with the first integer, but I can't
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figure out the exact relationship. The date is the current date.
4 PM is 16:00 hours.
Because you've presented something that AppleScript knows can't be a date
in your format (mm/dd/yy) since there's no month 16, it assumes the current
date and interprets your figures as a time. Since again the format doesn't
fit into your 12-hour clock AM/PM format but 16 hours does make sense in
24-hour clock time, it interprets it that way rather than throwing "Invalid
date and time" which it will do if the first figure > 24, or the second or
third is greater than > 59 (when the first > 12 so must be a time, not a
month). It accepts all sort of things as separators for dates and times.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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