Dates/Calendar

[Marty Knapp]

Thanks Sara and Ken for the info.

If anyone's interested, you're welcome to my calendar stack. It has 
Tooltips for instructions, but it's pretty simple/basic. It would need 
to be customized for use in your stack.

In Rev, insert this in the Message box:

go stack url  "http://westshorecraftworks.com/MartysCalendar.rev"


Marty Knapp

>>I'm reviving an calendar stack that I wrote years ago in Hypercard using
>>WindowScript. I've got it working pretty well, but had a quick question
>>- it appears that Windows XP is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1970
>>and that OSX is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1935. Does that
>>sound correct?
>>
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>
>I don't know about any cross-platform differences with dates but the
>two dates you quoted are both significant in Rev.
>
>1/1/1970 is 0 seconds (at midnight GMT). This can cause strange things
>to happen if you end up working with negative seconds.
>
>35 is the default century cutoff, so any dates before 1935 will get
>shown as 2035 after using the convert command, unless you change the
>cutoff.
>
>If you want to have a look at another calendar, mine is available at
><http://www.troz.net/Rev/libraries/Calendar.rev.gz>
>
>Cheers,
>Sara
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