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Re: Date Scripting in OS X
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Steve Roy <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 21 May 2003 12:20:56 -0400
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[log in to unmask] (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?

current date
--> date "Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:19:43 PM"

date "12/25/1995"
--> date "Monday, December 25, 1995 12:00:00 AM"

Steve

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