Date bug?

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Sun Jan 2 04:38:05 EST 2011


Interesting.

I wonder if it has anything to do with GMT? I'm -600 and the calc is off by
3600 seconds..? And the folks who are in Europe have no problem with this
script? Maybe Kevin or someone from the mothership can weigh in?


On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Jacques Hausser <jacques.hausser at unil.ch>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here the answer is OK also. Mac OS 10.6.5 too. I guess the culprit is not
> LC, but what's behind...
>
> Happy New Year
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 2 janv. 2011 à 09:54, André Bisseret a écrit :
>
> > Bonjour Chipp,
> >
> > Here, with your script, I get 11/8/10 as expected.
> >
> > Mac 10.6.5; liveCode 4.5.2
> >
> > Best regards from Grenoble
> >
> > Bonne et heureuse année à tous
> >
> > André
> >
> > Le 2 janv. 2011 à 05:58, Chipp Walters a écrit :
> >
> >> Hey, can anyone try this or tell me why it doesn't work?
> >> If I use any other date than 11/07/2010, it generates the next date. But
> for
> >> some reason Nov 7 doesn't work?
> >>
> >> on mouseUp
> >>  put "11/07/2010" into tDate
> >>  answer nextDayDate(tDate)
> >> end mouseUp
> >>
> >> function nextDayDate pDate
> >>  convert pDate to seconds
> >>
> >>  put 60*60*24 into tSecondsInDay
> >>  add tSecondsInDay to pDate
> >>  convert pDate to short date
> >>  return pDate
> >> end nextDayDate
> >>
> >> --
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