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Subject:	Re: Date Scripting in OS X
From:	Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2003 08:54:15 +1000
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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:
>
>> 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.

--
Shane Stanley,  [log in to unmask]

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