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Re: Date Scripting in OS X
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on 5/21/03 1:37 PM, Mark Munro wrote:

> How about using unix to do that?
>
> do shell script "date '+%m.%d.%y'"

I'm trying to coerce a string ("05212003") into a date (date "Wednesday, May
21, 2003 12:00:00 AM"). Can that be done with a variation of the syntax
above?

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