>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.

You do know that all of Tanaka's Osax were written in HyperCard and
compiled? I know it's no help really to anyone to know this, but just
another illustration of a powerful and useful piece of software neglected.

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