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Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0
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Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0

  • Subject: Re: Broken date math on AppleScript 2.0
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:46:58 -0700
At 16:25 -0800 2/15/08, Scott Babcock wrote:
>It appears that date math on AppleScript 2.0 (shipped with Leopard) is not working correctly with large values.
>
>If you have an integer whose value exceeds 0x1FFFFFFF, and you try to add or subtract this integer from a date, you will not get the expected value.

Integers in AppleScript have always been limited to 29 bits. Above that everything gets coerced to floating point.

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