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Re: Date Disaster

  • Subject: Re: Date Disaster
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:23:24 +1000
On 8 Sep 2014, at 7:08 am, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:

> Removing the time zone string

FWIW, I came to the conclusion that including the time zone was misleading, because it all it does is add the time zone at the time of running, not at the time of the date.

> It looks like I can force things to be correct by setting hours, minutes, seconds of the date object separately - and it seems like Nigel mentioned this in the last major date discussion.

Converting strings to dates is fraught with potential problems, so you're better off doing that where possible.

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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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