On 5/21/03 1:03 PM, "Eric Schult" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > on 5/21/03 1:37 PM, Mark Munro wrote: > >> How about using unix to do that? >> >> do shell script "date '+%m.%d.%y'" > > I'm trying to coerce a string ("05212003") into a date (date "Wednesday, May > 21, 2003 12:00:00 AM"). Can that be done with a variation of the syntax > above? If you're always going to use that exact format and have your own short date settings in month/day/year order then this will work: set theDate to "05212003" set theDate to (text 1 thru 2 of theDate) & "/" & (text 3 thru 4 of theDate) & "/" & text 5 thru -1 of theDate set theDate to date theDate But other people in the world will have it completely differently. That can be arranged... -- Paul Berkowitz