Eric Schult wrote on Wed, 21 May 2003 11:56:25 -0400: >Another crutch upon which have propped myself up is the dateToStamp and >stampToDate commands in Tanaka's OSAX, and it's not immediately clear to me >if >there's an alternate way in OS X to handle date manipulations like that. Neither command is in my copy of Tanaka's (2.0). What do they do? >For example, if I want to coerce a a string (i.e. "mmddyyyy") into a date, >I'm >completely beholden to Tanaka's to do that. Do you mean coerce something like "05222003" into a date? On a US machine, it could be: on mmddyyyyToDate(s) tell s to get text 1 thru 2 & " " & text 3 thru 4 & " " & text 5 thru 8 return date result end The converse could be: on dateTommyydd(theDate) set {day:dd, year:yyyy} to theDate copy theDate to b set b's month to January set mm to (theDate - b + 3944592) div 2629728 return text 2 thru -1 of ((100000000 + mm * 1000000 + dd * 10000 + yyyy) as string) end dateTommyydd NG