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Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date


  • Subject: Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:08:29 -0800

So, what's the purpose of converting to a unix date and back?

Why not keep them as appleScript dates from start to finish?  Wouldn't that avoid all these issues?

ES


> On 21/2/10 7:10 AM, "Nathan Vander Wilt" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> But I'm getting the impression that within an AppleScript script itself, dates
>> are stored (and *calculated*!) internally just as the class is writable
>> externally: four numbers YMD+S and some elementary calendar assumptions.
>> (Thanks Shane for corroborating on this.)


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