use-revolution Digest, Vol 40, Issue 17
Reinhold Venzl-Schubert
r.venzl-schubert at t-online.de
Fri Jan 12 09:43:24 EST 2007
Hi Mark, hi Bernard!
Thanks for your help! It works fine :-)
Reinhold
> This works in my code
>
> ...
> convert vTheSeconds to short system date and abbreviated system time
> ...
>
> where vTheSeconds is a value in seconds such as 1141690766
>
> Mark
> get the seconds
> convert it to abbreviated system date
> put it
>
> The convert command needs to be given a value (or a container holding
> a value) you need to convert. This also works:
>
> convert value(quote & the seconds & quote) to abbreviated system date
>
> I've been caught out by convert before doing precisely what you are
> trying to do. This 'feature' of Rev does not seem consistent or
> intuitve to me.
>
> Bernard
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