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On 15 Aug 2015, at 5:02 am, Michael Grant <email@hidden> wrote:

Well, for now I'm using the workaround:

date ((date string of (current date)) & " 10:15")

You're just leaving yourself open to more problems in future. The AppleScript Release Notes for 10.6 are pretty clear:

In AppleScript 2.1, the string must exactly match one of the system date formats (full, long, medium, or short; see System Preferences > International > Formats for examples), including all punctuation and whitespace. The only difference allowed is to use either a two- or four-digit year, regardless of what the format uses.

The fact that it still accepts some other strings may seem fortuitous, but it's just a bug waiting to happen. The notes continue:

Some scripts used partial date specifiers as a way to get dates relative to the current date, such as date "1/31" for January 31 of the current year, or date "15" to get the 15th of the current month. To do this in AppleScript 2.1, get a base date and then set the desired components using the properties of the date object. For example, to get January 31 of the current year:
set d to date "1/31/2000"
set year of d to year of (current date)
d --> date "Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:00:00 AM"
Alternatively, start with current date as the base. To get the 15th of the current month:
set d to current date
set day of d to 15
set time of d to 0
d --> date "Friday, May 15, 2009 12:00:00 AM"

The latter is what Chris suggested.

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

References:
	>date syntax not working on 10.10.5? (From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>)
	>Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5? (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5? (From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>)
	>Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5? (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)