Re: More date/time stuff
Re: More date/time stuff
- Subject: Re: More date/time stuff
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:23:39 +0100
I rarely second a rant against AppleScript, but we have to admit that
"constants" that you can set to an arbitrary value is a feature which
may hurt heavily.
set days to 30 -- looks innocent, isn't it?
Emmanuel
On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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"
--
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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