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Re: Date math on Intel Mac
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On 5/19/06 9:45 PM  John Baxter  [log in to unmask]  said:
 
> Where does the reference date come from?

I use the calculation to create a unique number that gets pasted into a Word
document. This number then is a unique referenece number for that document.
I use the following date as a reference which is subtracted from the current
date:

property pReferenceDate : date "Wednesday, January 1, 2003 12:00:01 AM"

This date was chosen because it was the date this organization, a law firm,
opened for business and using this date resulted in a number that is not too
many digits in length...for awhile anyway.

It's been working fine for over 3 years.

-Duane Mitchell

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