Re: Changing current date format
Re: Changing current date format
- Subject: Re: Changing current date format
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:15:39 +0100
One reason could be that with this old stuff you don't have to know the computer's locale settings.
In other words, this kind of line makes a robust localized month:
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word ((get current date)'s month as integer) of "Janvier Février etc." -- here the francophone version
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Emmanuel
On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Christopher Stone wrote:
>> property abbrMonth : {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"}
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> Not sure why we're messing around with this old stuff, since it's been possible to coerce month to text for some time - but it is a tried and true old technique used to work around one of Applescript's former shortcomings.
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