Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
- Subject: Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:12:58 -0500
On Feb 20, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
>> Here's an equivalent to what I need to do:
>>
>> 1. Get a date from an application (e.g. tell application "iPhoto" to get date of some photo)
>> 2. Store a representation to disk, then exit script
>> 3. Time passes, time zone offset may change.
>> 4. Start script, load stored representation from disk
>> 5. Set the *same* date (or a precise adjustment thereof) back to the application
>>
>> This is impossible to do with AppleScript's date model. (Or please show how I am wrong?)
>
>
> -- Heh heh heh
> copy (current date) to theDate
> tell application "System Events"
> local thePlist, theXML
> make new property list item with properties {value:theDate}
> set thePlist to text of result
> make new XML data with properties {text:thePlist}
> set theXML to result
> get the first XML element of the first XML element of theXML
> get value of result
> end tell
>
>
> This is pretty much ridiculous, but it does have the side effect of working. I haven't implemented it yet, but I'm presuming the reverse direction is possible as well. I am considering writing a faceless scriptable Cocoa app to do a more efficient conversion (and one that doesn't rely on a property list item's text to always be XML), but that may be a bit of a pain to deploy.
>
> hope this helps,
> -natevw _______________________________________________
Nate,
you can substitute the code above by
return ((current date) - (time to GMT)) as «class isot» as string
Can't guarantee it will not break in the future.
Deivy Petrescu
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