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set start_Time to EpochSeconds()

on EpochSeconds()
return do shell script "date -j -f \"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y\" \"`date`\" \"+%s\""
end EpochSeconds

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On 18. apr. 2010, at 19.56, Marconi <email@hidden> wrote:

What's the correct syntax to code a subroutine which does not need any input parameters passed to it but does get a value back?

I have to pass something unnecessary like so:

set start_Time to EpochSeconds(1)

on EpochSeconds(x)
return do shell script "date -j -f \"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y\" \"`date`\" \"+%s\""
end EpochSeconds

I can't just do:

set start_Time to EpochSeconds

on EpochSeconds
return do shell script "date -j -f \"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y\" \"`date`\" \"+%s\""
end EpochSeconds

What's the best way to set my start_Time to the value returned by my EpochSeconds subroutine?

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