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@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@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@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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
