Re: Correcting AGE_INFO
Re: Correcting AGE_INFO
- Subject: Re: Correcting AGE_INFO
- From: Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:41:53 +0100
Thanks everybody for all the help. I decided to start using ES'
solution. Hoping not to dissappoint anyone else . . .
I inserted all the other solutions as commented handlers, including
the name of the author and referring to this very interesting
discussion. I believe it's by far the longest thread since I became a
member of the list in june 2009, which is 159 businessdays ago ;),
including the start day.
For those who are interested: We shoot hundreds of product photos
every week for a big local warehouse, and the (in-house) life span of
a product may never exceed 7 business days until delivery of the
photo, including the incoming day (that's what we promised our
customer). At the moment a product comes in, we immediately scan it's
code with a barcode reader (with the help of a small Applescript of
course). This little script duplicates a very small default
placeholder.jpg and renames it to scanned_barcode.jpg. At this moment
the (in-house) life span of the product starts (which is in fact the
modification date of the duplicated placeholder file). That's why I
was interested in the modification date instead of the creation date.
From now on, thanks to the list, I can monitor a product's in-house
age in businessdays.
So thanks again, NG, Deivy, Mark, Luther, Ed and all the others that
gave input to the discussion.
Bert.
On 6 feb 2010 (5), at 01:05, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 18:38 -0500 2/5/10, Deivy Petrescu wrote:
I don't know much about the business world.
But if I order something on a Thursday and the order says I'll have
it in 5 business days, I assume they mean the next Thursday.
Is that just me?
2 business days; I'd expect it on Monday.
A friend on the Silicon Mountain user group complains that there is
no way to figure out how old someone is. The problem is that the
concept of date has a fractional part. It's one thing that Microsoft
got right when they represented date/time values as a float.
If I order at the opening for business instant on Thursday I would
expect 5 day delivery at the close of business on the following
Wednesday. But if I wait until the secretaries have their coffee and
begin answering telephones I wouldn't be surprised to get delivery
on Friday because different folks use different rounding algorithms.
Think about the banks who record your deposits at the end of the day
on which they are presented but apply your credit card charges
immediately on receipt. They're not stupid.
And can I order a cocktail at the start of the day I turn 21? or do
I have to wait another day?
It's a bit like determining the start of the century. AppleScript is
not, and shouldn't be, designed to answer the question.
--
--> So did we celebrate the start of a new decade at the end of
2009? Or do the tens start at in January 2011? Was the first year,
0000 ACE, assigned Roman numeral I ?<--
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