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On 22/5/03 4:08 AM +1000, Mark Lively, [log in to unmask], wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Eric Schult wrote:
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>> Another crutch upon which have propped myself up is the dateToStamp and
>> stampToDate commands in Tanaka's OSAX, and it's not immediately clear
>> to me if
>> there's an alternate way in OS X to handle date manipulations like
>> that.
>>
>> For example, if I want to coerce a a string (i.e. "mmddyyyy") into a
>> date, I'm
>> completely beholden to Tanaka's to do that.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
> It can be done in vanilla applescript. It won't be fast.
Last time someone tested it, I believe vanilla methods were faster than any
of the scripting additions.
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Shane Stanley, [log in to unmask]
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