Re: Fun with dates...
Re: Fun with dates...
- Subject: Re: Fun with dates...
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:09:44 -0700
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:56:30 -0400, Neil Faiman
<email@hidden> said:
>On Jun 19, 2005, at 9:18 PM, David Crowe wrote:
>
>> Paul;
>>
>> Thanks for explanation of why:
>>
>> set ABSynchTime to "6/17/2005 23:56:45" as date
>>
>> fails, but:
>>
>> set ABSynchTime to date "6/17/2005 23:56:45"
>>
>> succeeds (the coercion via 'as date' has never been implemented).
>>
>> It's this kind of thing that makes AppleScript programming so
>> difficult for a newbie. Without this group to answer questions like
>> this (especially when I don't have a workaround) I don't know what
>> I'd do!
>
>In this case, "date <string>" is a specific AppleScript language
>construct denoting the date which can be represented by the
>particular string. "<string> as date", on the other hand, is a just
>an instance of the AppleScript's general coercion syntax, and as Paul
>has pointed out, whether any particular coercion will or won't work
>is something of a coin-toss.
So on p. 268 of my book: "A string may be used to form a date specifier, but
it cannot be coerced to a date." I spent months testing this sort of thing
so you don't have to! (At least, I think I did; it was so painful that I've
now blocked it all out of my mind.) m.
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AppleScript: the Definitive Guide
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