Re: More date/time stuff
Re: More date/time stuff
- Subject: Re: More date/time stuff
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:05 -0800
- Thread-topic: More date/time stuff
Oops! I didn't spot that! Thanks, Emmanuel.
This indeed (as I had a sneaking memory and regrettably did not check) is
one of those situations that absolutely needs 'its':
set today to current date
tell today to set {its hours, its minutes, its seconds} to {0, 0, 0}
today
--> date "Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:00:00 AM"
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Paul Berkowitz
> From: Emmanuel Levy <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:01:25 +0100
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: More date/time stuff
>
> I wouldn't try this script.
>
> If I'm correct, the script below won't change "today". It will only
> change the AppleScript constant "hours" (which usually evaluates to
> 3600) into 0, and same for "minutes" (was 60, is now 0).
>
> Emmanuel
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> We've been through this a hundred times. You can't set a list of
>> properties of some object to a list of anything (text items, number
>> items, application object items), although you can of course get a
>> list of properties. You can, however, tell it to do so:
>>
>> set today to current date
>> tell today
>> set {hours, minutes, seconds} to {0, 0, 0}
>> end tell
>> --> {0, 0, 0}
>>
>> The one-liner
>>
>> tell today to set {hours, minutes, seconds} to {0, 0, 0}
>>
>>
>> works just as well.
>
> Or just as bad.
>
> set today to current date
> tell today to set {hours, minutes, seconds} to {0, 0, 0}
> today
> -- date "Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:58:04 PM"
>
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