How about using unix to do that?

do shell script "date '+%m.%d.%y'"





On Wednesday, May 21, 2003 02:13 PM, Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:57  PM, doug rogers 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>Part of me was thinking how easy it a lot of this stuff is to do in
>cocoa.  If I had ambition and maybe a grilled spam and cheese sandwich
>I would start writing it.
>
>-Mark
>


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