On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Shane Stanley wrote:

> 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"

That's just amazing. Too bad "as feet as poem as text" doesn't seem to 
work (as long as we're doing conversions....)

Mark L. may have forgotten about that one, but I don't think I ever knew 
it. I like it, but it *does* suggest some sort of explanatory comment in 
the code might be good for the poor sucker who has to maintain this (e.g. 
me in 6 weeks time).

Thanks to everyone else with good suggestions too.

   -b.johnson