Convert date to seconds

[Dar Scott]

Yikes.  I sent off something before seeing this.  Well, maybe it is helpful.

And it was scathing!  Well, not really.  I don't know how to do scathing and have no inclination, anyway.

Dar


On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:

> disregard, after looking more closely at his email dar is correct
> completely.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:
> 
>> it gets midnight UTC, livecode changing the date FROM the time zone
>> independent seconds gives you time zone differences.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think it is the UTC seconds thing.  I think that changing a date to
>>> seconds will get midnight of the day for the current time zone.  Somebody
>>> in an more westerly timezone might see those seconds and the date will be
>>> earlier.
>>> 
>>> If it is on only one computer and the timezone will not change, then you
>>> might be OK.
>>> 
>>> The dateItems format for convert might be handy for coming up with a file
>>> name format.
>>> 
>>> Dar
>>> 
>>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That's weird. I still get the 16th. Can anyone else confirm the 15th?
>>> (not doubting you Dar)
>>>> 
>>>> I might have to change this then…
>>>> 
>>>> Tom
>>>> 
>>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:39 AM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 17, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am converting the short date (08/16/13) to seconds and I get
>>> 1376625600
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I converted it back earlier today, I got the 15th.  I guess there
>>> is a problem related to timezones or something.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Consider NAMEyyyymmdd.  It is easy to parse.  It lists in order.  It
>>> is somewhat readable.  It is two characters shorter.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dar
>>>>> 
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>> 
>> Andrew Kluthe
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