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Re: Simple Date-Time Format Question...


  • Subject: Re: Simple Date-Time Format Question...
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:08:41 +0100

kai wrote on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:53:15 +0100:

>On 25 Apr 2007, at 14:22, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> Total tangent here, but ... The UK date comes out "April 25"?  I
>> thought that was an Americanism and the UK form was "25 April".
>
>Actually, that's an interesting observation, Mark.
>
>System Preferences here displays the following sample dates:
>
>----------------------------
>
>	Full: Friday, 5 January 2007
>	Long: 5 January 2007
>	Medium: 5 Jan 2007
>	Short: 05/01/2007
>
>----------------------------
>
>The date shown in my menu bar reflects the same formatting. However,
>compare the above with the following results:
>
>----------------------------
>
>tell "20070105" as «class isot» as date to ¬
>	{date:it, string:it as string, date string:date string, short date
>string:short date string}
>
>--> [listed vertically for greater legibility]:
>
>	date: date "Friday, January 5, 2007 00:00:00"
>	string: "Friday, January 5, 2007 00:00:00"
>	date string: "Friday, January 5, 2007"
>	short date string: "5/1/07"

I think there must be some confusion on your machine, Kai. Your script
gives me the right results:

--> date:date "Friday 5 January 2007 00:00:00"
    string:"Friday 5 January 2007 00:00:00"
    date string:"Friday 5 January 2007"
    short date string:"05/01/2007"

(I've customised the commas out of the "British" date/time format on my
machines.)

Did you quit and relaunch Script Editor after each date-format reset for
your previous post?

NG

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