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Re: Can't Coerce String to Date?
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Re: Can't Coerce String to Date?

  • Subject: Re: Can't Coerce String to Date?
  • From: Alex Hall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:34:46 -0400

On Mar 13, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:


From what I read, AppleScript will accept any string, like "06/11/2000" or "1 1 13" and figure it out. Interpretation comes from the user's settings (that is, if the day or month is the first number) but the date object *should* result either way. Is this no longer the case?

Yes, that changed a while back. Had to rewrite a bunch of scripts as a result.
Ah, that explains a lot then. That's very annoying, but I guess locale settings were the reason? Hard to distribute a script when you might have dates in America being April 1 and in the UK being January 4.


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Have a great day,
Alex Hall
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