date anomalies when converting to seconds

[Chris Sheffield]

This is one for those of you developing for both Mac and Windows. I'm  
running into a very strange problem, and I'm not sure if it's a Rev  
bug or if it has something to do with hardware differences between  
Macs and PCs.

Here's a code snippet:

put "01/06/2006" into tDate
convert tDate to seconds
put tDate

Run this in the message box on both a Mac and a PC. See the different  
results. Anyone know why this would happen? What I'm ultimately doing  
is converting two dates to seconds and then calculating the number of  
weeks that have passed between the two dates. I discovered that my  
calculations were incorrect on the PC, and my debugging led me to  
this. The value on the Mac seems to be the correct one. What's  
strange is some dates seem to be correct when converting to seconds,  
but others are not. Try "04/28/2006" for example. Converting to  
seconds results in the same value on both platforms.

Can anyone help with this? Or does anyone have another way of  
calculating the number of weeks between two dates without converting  
to seconds first? Have I found a bug I need to report?

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally
The Fluency Company
http://www.readnaturally.com
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