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Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5?
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Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5?

  • Subject: Re: date syntax not working on 10.10.5?
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:36:10 -0500
I don't want to start an argument or anything, but as far as I'm aware AppleScript has done a perfectly adequate job of guessing dates and times from strings for many years. Why "fix" what ain't broken? Aren't computers supposed to be getting better at heuristics, not worse? (Also, as I pointed out, the string I was trying to use *does* match one of the formats I've got set in the preferences.) Oh well....

Michael


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
On 19 Aug 2015, at 6:42 am, Michael Grant <email@hidden> wrote:
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> But Shane seems to think it may break at some point in the future, based on the Release Notes.

The fundamental problem is that creating a date from a string requires that the string matches particular format(s) (set in Preferences), and if it doesn't, any result is by definition a guess. And as the Cocoa documentation puts it: "If a formatter is set to be lenient, when parsing a string it uses heuristics to guess at the date which is intended. As with any guessing, it may get the result date wrong (that is, a date other than that which was intended)." Why take that risk when you don't have to? The differing results in this thread are surely a good argument for why creating dates from strings is best avoided where possible.


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