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Time Stamp String


  • Subject: Time Stamp String
  • From: Todd Geist <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:55:08 -0800

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to create a routine that would take the current date and return it
in the form

yyyymmdd_time

Ex

20050314_46211


I created this script which works just fine but I was wondering if there was
a better way.


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on TimeStampString(theDate)
    set theTS to theDate

    set tid to text item delimiters
    set text item delimiters to ""

    set theYear to the year of theTS
    set theDay to day of theTS as text
    --pad the day number to 2 digits
    set theDay to "0" & theDay as text
    set theDay to items ((count of theDay) - 1) through (count of theDay) of
theDay

    set theMonth to the month of theTS as number
    --pad the month number to 2 digits
    set theMonth to "0" & theMonth as text
    set theMonth to items ((count of theMonth) - 1) through (count of
theMonth) of theMonth

    set theTime to time of theTS
    set theFullString to theYear & theMonth & theDay & "_" & theTime as text
    return theFullString

    set text item delimiters to tid

end TimeStampString
_____________________________




Thanks

Todd


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