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Re: Month Names


  • Subject: Re: Month Names
  • From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:41:22 -0800
  • Thread-topic: Month Names

Luther,

>>month of (current date) --> November

The month returned by that command is a constant, not a text string.  It¹s
part of the appleScript language, which is no longer localized.

But, you can coerce the value to text which should be localized:

month of (current date) as text


HTH,

ES




On 11/10/09 8:32 AM, "Luther Fuller"  wrote:

> I've been experimenting with this ...
>
> month of (current date) --> November
>
> Despite changing the language, it always returns the month in English. In
> fact, the Finder always displays the month in English, without regard for the
> language setting. (But, I've only tried German.)
>
> Are month names universally in English?
> Or, has anyone seen month names displayed in any other language?
>
>
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