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Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
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Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date


  • Subject: Re: Issues subtracting Unix epoch from date
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:33:02 -0500

If you're going to do that, you might as well pass the arguments as
arguments to perl, rather than literals inside the Perl code. That way
you're only going through one layer of quoting (the shell's) rather
than two (the shell's and Perl's).  You can also use Perl's
arbitrary-quote-delimiter mechanism (qqX...X) to avoid having to use
backslashed double-quotes.

property perlTime : "perl -MTime::Local -MPOSIX -le 'print
strftime(qq(%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S %p), localtime timegm @ARGV)' "

on GMT2localtime(yr, mon, dy, hr, min, sec)
	set argList to {}
	repeat with arg in {sec, min, hr, dy, (mon as integer) - 1, (yr as
integer) - 1900}
		set end of argList to quoted form of (arg as text)
	end repeat
	set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
	return date (do shell script (perlTime & (argList as text)))
end GMT2localtime


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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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