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John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 May 2006 23:40:49 +0100
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At 12:53 pm -0700 21/5/06, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

>property pRefDate : "1/1/2003 00:00:01"
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>
>set pReferenceDate to date pRefDate
>
>
>You'd avoid the problem that way, even if you forget to re-compile and save
>on future updates. But you'll still run into trouble if any of your users do
>use the yyyy-mm-dd or similar year-first short date format on their
>computers. You'd need to make a special version for them. Or use the other
>(current date) method.

         property pRefDate : "1 ja 03 0"
         set pReferenceDate to date pRefDate

No trouble.

JD

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