At 6:04 PM +0100 5/22/06, John Delacour wrote: >At 9:59 am -0400 22/5/06, Duane L. Mitchell wrote: > >>The negative didn't make sense, it would suggest that something is >>wrong with the "current date". > >Does this work? : > >set _GMT to date (do shell script "date +'%e %b %Y %H:%M:%S'") Yes but (for whoever might be concerned) it's much slower: 20+ms OMM, while the whole "tell current date" thing runs in 0.2 ms (100 times less.) Emmanuel