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Re: Date math on Intel Mac
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John Baxter <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 24 May 2006 11:20:34 -0700
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On May 24, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Mark Lively wrote:

> date "Friday the 13th"
>
> actually compiles.  Doesn't do what you think though.

date "Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:00:00 PM"
Close enough (YMMV with other date settings, perhaps).

13 hours on today's date.  Makes sense to me.  ;-)

   --John (makes sense now that I've seen it)

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