Recurring Dates Script

[Jim Carwardine]

Thanks, Sarah.  I'm familiar with dateItems from HC.  Even with dateItems,
checking on things like the second Tuesday of every month is tricky.  I was
hoping that somebody might have done some of that... Jim

on 1/11/04 6:21 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> I don't know exactly what sort of recurring dates you are planning, but
> you will find that using the dateItems format works really well for
> date calculations:
> 
> Try something like this:
> put the seconds into theDate
> convert theDate to dateItems
> -- 2004,1,12,8,16,46,2
> -- see the docs for dateItems to check what each item is.
> 
> Now you can edit any of these items WITHOUT having to worry about
> whether it results in a correct date. When you convert it back, the
> engine will make it into a real date.
> 
> add 18 to item 2 of theDate      -- item 2 = month, so move 18 months
> forward
> -- 2004,19,12,8,18,26,2
> convert theDate to long date
> -- Tuesday, July 12, 2005
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Sarah
> 
> On 12 Jan 2004, at 1:59 am, Jim Carwardine wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone written a script that handles recurring dates like Outlook
>> or
>> Entourage do?  Jim
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