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Re: Date math on Intel Mac
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Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 24 May 2006 13:47:03 -0400
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On May 24, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Duane L. Mitchell wrote:

> On 5/24/06 11:51 AM  John Baxter  [log in to unmask]  said:
>
>> Subject to correction, of course, I'm reasonably sure that the
>> problem is not with
>> current date
>> but with the value compiled into pReferenceDate.
>
> OK so pReferenceDate would have to compile into a number larger  
> than current
> date in order to make the result negative.
>
> -Duane Mitchell
>

Fun trivia

date "Friday the 13th"

actually compiles.  Doesn't do what you think though.

-Mark
Who uses dates that are in the future and sometimes does get negative  
numbers subtracting times.

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