Julian Dates?

[Rob Cozens]

>But what happens when you try to manipulate your negative time?
>
>If I "get -86400" and then "convert it to dateItems" I get "Invalid Date."

David, et al,

My apologies on this one.  Perhaps it has something to do with the 
lack of persistence of the value of it?

Anyway, in a script:

on testDate
   ask "Enter a date"
   convert it to seconds
   put it into zaDate
   convert it to dateItems
   put zaDate&&"="&&it
end testDate

-86400 does not give me "Invalid Date", but a date in 1969.
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