On 28/06/2013, at 10:04 PM, Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you are will to dive into ASOC (Applescript Objective C) aka Cocoa AppleScript the following works. Almost... > set aDate to NSDate's dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow_((date "Friday, January 1, 1904 12:00:00 AM") - (current date)) That's not reliable because of daylight savings time. You need to convert from AS dates to NSDates with something like (adjust date string to match your settings): on makeNSDateFrom_(theASDate) set refDate to date "Friday, 1 January 1904 0:00:00" as date set theDiff to theASDate - refDate - 3.061152E+9 - (time to GMT) + (current application's NSTimeZone's localTimeZone()'s daylightSavingTimeOffset()) as real set newDate to current application's NSDate's dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate_(theDiff) return newDate end makeNSDateFrom_ > Remembers when time began in 1904, now time begins in 1970. You're behind the times. Cocoa time begins in 2001. -- Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>