Re: Date computation
Re: Date computation
- Subject: Re: Date computation
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:44:14 -0700
On Jan 7, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
set today to (current date)
copy today to b
set b's day to 14
set secondWednesday to b - (b - (date "Wednesday, 1 January 1000
00:00:00")) mod weeks
if secondWednesday is less than or equal to today then
tell b to set {day, day} to {32, 14}
set secondWednesday to b - (b - (date "Wednesday, 1 January 1000
00:00:00")) mod weeks
end if
return secondWednesday
Slick, but I can't understand it; care to explain the maths, please?
In reviewing the script, I realized that I failed to specify that if
today is the second Wednesday, it should return the second Wednesday of
next month. So what change needs to be made in the script.
--
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to be set right."
Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri, 1899
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