Shane Stanley wrote on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:45:40 +1000: >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" Slightly less of a hack and faster: property zdate : date "Monday 10 August 1992 11:00:00" tell (current date) - zdate set file_name to ((it div 100000000) as text) & (it mod 100000000 div 1) & ".html" end tell Obviously this assumes that (current date) - date "Monday 10 August 1992 11:00:00" will never again be less than 100000000, but that seems a fairly safe bet. NG