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Re: Date math problem in Leopard
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Re: Date math problem in Leopard


  • Subject: Re: Date math problem in Leopard
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:43:52 -0400

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
>  set newDate to do shell script "perl -le 'print ~~localtime(567320400
>  + " & newIssue & " * " & weeks & ")'"

Whups, sorry, that just gets you a string.  Try this:

set newDate to date (do shell script "perl -MPOSIX -le 'print
strftime(\"%A, %B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S %p\", localtime (567320400 + " &
newIssue & " * " & weeks & "))'")



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