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Re: Applescript: date formatting

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On 2016-03-27, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> the following applescript:
> 	write "date: " & aPhoto's date & return to outfile
>
> produces:
> date: Tuesday, 10July, 2012 at 13:22:10
>
> Which is a useless date for more processing.
>
> So, is it a case of having to write some complex subroutine to generate
> a proper ISO date format with lots of string concatenation and
> truncation (I suspect I would have to add 100 to all values and then
> take the last 2 digits to get a leading 0 for values less than 10).
>
> Or is there something really simple which I have not found ?

[cross posted to alt.comp.lang.applescript]

-- begin script
return FormatDateTime(current date)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

on FormatDateTime(theDate)
	set theDate to theDate as date
	set D to characters -2 through -1 of ("0" & theDate's day) as
text
	copy theDate to tempDate
	set the month of tempDate to January
	set M to characters -2 thru -1 of ("0" & 1 + (theDate - tempDate
+ 1314864) div 2629728) as text
	set Y to characters -1 thru -4 of ((year of theDate) as text) as
text
	set hh to "0" & theDate's hours as text
	set hh to characters ((count of hh) - 1) through (count of hh)
of hh
	set mm to "0" & theDate's minutes as text
	set mm to characters ((count of mm) - 1) through (count of mm)
of mm
	set ss to "0" & theDate's seconds as text
	set ss to characters ((count of ss) - 1) through (count of ss)
of ss
	return (Y & "-" & M & "-" & D & " @ " & hh & ":" & mm & ":" & ss
as text)
end FormatDateTime
-- end script

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Applescript: date formatting JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 03:31 -0400
  Re: Applescript: date formatting JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 03:52 -0400
  Re: Applescript: date formatting Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-27 05:00 -0700
  Re: Applescript: date formatting Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-27 16:34 +0000

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