Re: Extract from result of current date
Re: Extract from result of current date
- Subject: Re: Extract from result of current date
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:02:46 -0700
On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
But why, when "time string of (current date)" is so much more
readable and understandable?
Any number of reasons, starting with "I've written shell scripts
before and that's what comes naturally." But also, date +"format"
gives you precise control over what you get back, whereas "time
string of" is subject to the whims of the International system
preferences panel. So there are times when the less obvious
solution is nevertheless the more appropriate one for the task at
hand.
Makes sense. I rarely write scripts for anyone other than myself, so
that is not an issue for me, so it never occurred to me.
I'm truly puzzled why people would use "do shell script" when vanilla
Applescript can handle the job.
Hey, "do shell script" *is* vanilla AppleScript. No OSAX required. :)
Actually, it's part of an OSAX (standard additions) ;). But the
shell script itself isn't.
Man, that Goldwater, such a left-wing looney. ;-) May I assume
from the 205-year figure that the statement was made in 1981?
You may; I do.
-- Michelle
--
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the information we have lost in data?"
T.S. Eliot (1915)
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