Built-in date functions ... qwirk or bug?

[Alan German]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:13  PM, Dylan Raethel wrote:
> timeToCheck = "20/03/2003; 07:11:11 a.m.";
> date.get(timeToCheck, @dayAddr, @monthAddr, @yearAddr, @hourAddr,
> @minuteAddr, @secondAddr);


This snippet (and the other similar to this) won't compile on my Mac 
without first coercing timeToCheck to a date data type. In fact, 
date.get requires the first parameter to be a dateType, not a string.

I also had to arrange the dd/mm/yy as mm/dd/yy to match my local 
machines date format.

But after those changes, I got "7" and "8" in both dialogs.

Are you sure your system's date settings are dd/mm/yy?

And, are you sure you're coercing timeToCheck to a date?


Alan