Re: date/Snow Leopard changed
Re: date/Snow Leopard changed
- Subject: Re: date/Snow Leopard changed
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:30:40 +1000
- Thread-topic: date/Snow Leopard changed
On 7/9/09 7:57 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Would it be possible for apple to fix things this way:
>
> date someStringwithAdate using {region: "United States", calendar:
> "Gregorian")
>
> it would default to the localized settings if nothing is specified.
If the "using" parameter was compulsory, probably. But what you're really
asking is for them to keep the existing method, one way or the other,
because although it's broken for some other people, it works for you. It's
the same argument that was used in the transition to Unicode, in a sense.
But the reality is that proper international support is an incredibly
complex business, and the best (probably *only* in practical terms) way to
support it to use collaboratively developed open source software, such as
the ICU code Chris referred to. That's what Mac OS is using -- it's no
longer an issue of some code that the AS team, or some other Apple team,
wrote.
Apple can't afford to have dates screw up on those millions of iPhones it
hopes to sell in China, and it doesn't make sense to use one set of code for
them and another for a relative handful of AppleScript users. I know I can
think of a lot of other things I'd rather see the AS team spend precious
engineering resources on.
The good news is this means the underlying code should be solid, safe,
consistent, maintained, and support all languages. It also means its
features aren't set by Apple, or a small subset of Apple clients who happen
to use AppleScript.
Feel free to lament the passing of something that was once free and easy,
but understand that (a) it wasn't done on a whim, and (b) there's no turning
back.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro Sessions <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>
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