Re: Localize weekdays
Re: Localize weekdays
- Subject: Re: Localize weekdays
- From: jj <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:54:38 +0100
>>> (current date) as text --> "viernes, 28 enero 2005 00:08:57"
>>>
>>> But I don't think I can pick "viernes" from this string, since I don't know
>>> if word-of-dateAsText-which-is-not-a-number is a weekday or a month name...
>>
>> Right. So ask for the weekday specifically ;)
>>
>> weekday of (current date)
>> ->Viernes
>
> Did you really did test that? I don't believe it. You're making it up, for
> reasons known best to yourself. Can't be bothered to test?
>
> 'weekday', like 'month', results in a _constant_ which looks like the
> English name of the weekday. No matter what you set the International Date
> System Preference to, the result is always Thursday, Friday, etc. Never,
> ever Viernes.
True, and this should be (if Apple implemented it) a string result:
pseudo-code:
set w to weekday of (current date)
--> Friday
w as text
--> "viernes"
If this is time for requests, I would extend the "month as number" new
feature to weekdays, as well as coercion-to-localized-string of all date
constants (minutes as string --> "minutos"; January as string --> "enero";
etc.), and even every constant which is "part of the real world" and has its
context out of AppleScript (pounds as string --> "libras"; degrees Celsius
as string --> "grados Celsius")... ;-)
jj
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