Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
- Subject: Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:42:14 -0800
- Thread-topic: Specific Date-Time Formatting
On 11/4/05 12:36 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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".
Ah, yes, whereas 'day' is _only_ a property (of date). The 'class' (if
that's what it is - I thought it was a constant - same thing?) is 'days',
not 'day', so no confusion. (That's why you have to write the ungrammatical
(1 * days) when you need 1 day in seconds.)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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