LiveCode convert seconds to dateItems - year is out by 19?

[Terence Heaford]

Could it be something to do with the base date on the mac vs the base date of live code?

I believe the base date on a mac is 1970, not sure what it is in live code?

Terry

> On 11 May 2021, at 13:59, Keith Clarke via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Martin & Alex,
> 
> I wasn’t aware of ‘the seconds’ - thanks that’s behaving correctly here. 
> 
> Tracing back from this date conversion being OK to the tCreateDate variable. This is item 4 of the long files, which according to the docs, should be Creation date, in seconds. 
> 
> Bypassing the conversion, this item is the same for all the files in my target folder (some created yesterday & some weeks ago). It has the value 2212122496, which LiveCode converts (reliably!) to 2040,2,6,6,28,16,2.
> 
> Printing out the long files for one of the files in the target folder shows… 
> 
> filename,2055,0,2212122496,1620675773,2212122496,0,501,20,600,ttxtTEXT
> 
> This same weird value is being returned for the Creation Date (item 4) & Last Access date (item 6), though the Last Modified Date (item 5) looks correct.
> 
> Any clues?   
> Best,
> Keith
> 
>> On 11 May 2021, at 13:09, Martin Koob via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Keith
>> 
>> I just tried the following
>> 
>> on mouseup
>> 
>>  convert the seconds to dateitems
>> 
>>  put it
>> 
>> end mouseup
>> 
>> The result is 2021,5,11,7,52,5,3  So that is correct.
>> 
>> Where is the value in your tCreateDate variable from.  Maybe there was a miscalculation there.
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>>> On May 11, 2021, at 6:44 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> What am I doing wrong with convert tCreateDate from seconds to dateItems… 
>>> 
>>> I’m pulling the long files of files I created yesterday on a Mac and attempting to convert the creation date. 
>>> 
>>> Whatever date type I choose, LiveCode reckons yesterday was in the year 2040. Did I oversleep?
>>> Thanks
>>> Keith
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