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At 10:19 am -0400 19/5/06, Duane L. Mitchell wrote: >Here's the script: > >property pReferenceDate : date "Wednesday, January 1, 2003 12:00:01 AM" >set vDocNumber to ((current date) - pReferenceDate) as inches as string >display dialog "The number is: " & vDocNumber > >The "as inches as string" is my latest attempt at coercing the number to a >string. In 10.4.6 'display dialog' will automatically coerce the sci notation to string provided to don't try your own coercion first. But I'm guessing you don't want a dialog and the simplest trick I know of is to get Perl to do it, as below: property pReferenceDate : "1/1/1803" set vDocNumber to ((current date) - (get date pReferenceDate)) --=> 6.418113912E+9 display dialog "" default answer vDocNumber -- or do shell script "perl -e 'print " & vDocNumber & "'" --=> 6418114152 JD