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Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
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Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting


  • Subject: Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 12:36:49 -0800

On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

tell current date + 2 * days
    set m to its month as integer
    set d to day
end

Comment/question for Chris Nebel (or anyone else who can answer): why does "month" require "its" but day doesn't require "its"? (Even without "as integer", "month" requires "its"; without "its" it returns "month" as a key word, but with "its", it returns the name of the month.)

It's an ambiguity in the grammar, and AppleScript tends to resolve it in the way people don't want. "month" is both a class and a property in that context; AppleScript assumes it's a class. To make it syntactically clear that it's a property, you have to add the "its".



--Chris Nebel AppleScript and Automator Engineering

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