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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 21:29:09 -0500

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
And once you start looking at the bigger picture of how dates are formatted, let alone the fact that different calendars can be used, you realise that a scheme that once looked good to a bunch of geeks in one small geographic area doesn't fare so well in the big world. 

OK, point taken. 

 
(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.)

You have no AM/PM string showing and a 24-hour clock?

That's right.

 
And lets say you do match your preferences, and it works. Then one day, for whatever reason, you decide to change your settings, or perhaps run your scripts on someone else's computer. Are you happy that they might all fail?

Well, I'm less happy that they actually are failing in the here and now....

 
Having said that, of course you should be able to make a date from a string. But you need to be able to control the format that will be used for the parsing, which standard AS doesn't let you do, or you should read the format in use (again, difficult to do in AS) and make sure the string you're parsing matches. FWIW, the former is a little easier in 10.11.

If I were boss (LOL!), I think I would have waited until those improved capabilities were in place before removing the existing functionality, however imperfect. But, OK, I s'pose I'll deal with it one way or another.

Michael



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