Re: Date math problem in Leopard
Re: Date math problem in Leopard
- Subject: Re: Date math problem in Leopard
- From: Jeff Jungblut <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:42:24 -0700
- Thread-topic: Date math problem in Leopard
on 3/15/08 10:43 AM, Mark J. Reed at email@hidden wrote:
> 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 & "))'")
Thanks so much for that. I changed the constant to 567331200 (567320400 came
up as 9:00 PM Wednesday on my system -- time zone difference?) and now it
correctly produces a Thursday date.
--
Jeff Jungblut
email@hidden
Senior Graphic Designer & Web Developer
Uptown Publications
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