Re: How to use date of current date
Re: How to use date of current date
- Subject: Re: How to use date of current date
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:02:36 +0000
"emile.a.schwarz" wrote on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:59:18 +0100:
>in the documentation I saw an entry 'date' in the date (class, command,
>feature, whatever it it called / classified).
>
>But I am unable to use it.
>
>All I wanted was to see what it returns (certainly the date part of a
>date like time is the time part of a date).
Hi.
If you're talking about 'current date', the '-> date' is the class of
the AppleScript object it returns. It doesn't have a 'date' property.
>PS: I need to get SQLDate (YYYY-MM-DD) and I feel that I will have to do
>it by myself…)
To get the current date in that format, you could use this one-liner:
tell (current date) to tell ((its year) * 10000 + (its month) * 100 + (its day)) as text to set SQLDate to text 1 thru 4 & "-" & text 5 thru 6 & "-" & text 7 thru 8
There is in fact a shorter hack, but it may not work for much longer:
text 1 thru 10 of ((current date) as «class isot» as string) -- Must be 'string'.
NG
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