Error in docs about "file creation date"

[Martin Baxter]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Mark Smith wrote:
>> Ran the script here, on Mac 10.4.9, Rev 2.8.1 - all detailed files 
>> info matched the finder....
> 
> Thanks for checking, Mark. It's puzzling why we're getting different 
> results than Wilhelm. Any XP users who feel like running the script? 
> Here it is again:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   answer folder "Choose a folder:"
>   set the directory to it
>   put the detailed files into fld 1
>   repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in in fld 1
>     get item 4 of line x of fld 1
>     convert it to short date and time
>     put it into item 4 of line x of fld 1
>     get item 5 of line x of fld 1
>     convert it to short date and time
>     put it into item 5 of line x of fld 1
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp
> 

My (linewrapped) results on XP look like this:

altindex.php,10225,,5/16/07 11:15 AM,5/20/07 4:18 PM,1179771621,0,0,0,666,

The dates are OK, although the result does deviate from what the docs 
tell you to expect in that items 3 and 11 (unsupported on windows) are 
supposed to therefore contain zero, according to the docs, in the same 
way as items 7,8,9. But are in fact empty. Unlikely to cause any real 
trouble I would think, but you never know.

Martin Baxter