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Re: Epoch Seconds to YYYY-MM-DD


  • Subject: Re: Epoch Seconds to YYYY-MM-DD
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:38:42 -0500

On Apr 27, 2013, at 10:25, Marconi <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to pass a number like "1157445071" to a shell script but AS keeps converting the passed value, such as "1157445071", to "1.157445071E+9" scientific notation.

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Hey Marconi,

How are you generating your seed number?

If you pass it as a string it should work fine:

set n to "1157445071"
do shell script "date -r " & n & " '+%Y-%m-%d'"

--> "2006-09-05"

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Best Regards,
Chris


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