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Re: Huh? When did that happen? (exponentiation and integers)
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> On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
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>> FWIW, the unit-conversion hack still works in Snow Leopard:
>> 
>> property zdate : date "Monday, August 10, 1992 11:00:00 AM"
>> set file_name to ((current date) - zdate as feet as text) & ".html"
> 
> I forgot all about that one.
> 
> -Mark
> remembers writing 20 lines of object pascal to do one line of
> applescript.

How does that work??

By itself you get an error:

zdate as feet as text

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