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Re: Date math on Intel Mac
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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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Tue, 23 May 2006 01:28:29 +0100
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At 11:14 pm +0200 22/5/06, Emmanuel wrote:

>At 6:04 PM +0100 5/22/06, John Delacour wrote:
>>At 9:59 am -0400 22/5/06, Duane L. Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>The negative didn't make sense, it would suggest that something is 
>>>wrong with the "current date".
>>
>>Does this work? :
>>
>>set _GMT to date (do shell script "date +'%e %b %Y %H:%M:%S'")
>
>Yes but (for whoever might be concerned) it's much slower: 20+ms 
>OMM, while the whole "tell current date" thing runs in 0.2 ms (100 
>times less.)

Maybe; but if, as Duane suggests, something is wrong with 'current 
date' on the Intel machines, then ...

JD

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