I'm only a newbie here, but I'm quite glad that I *think* I can shed some light on your question:
On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I have run across a bit of an anomaly. The dateItems format is not documented anywhere in the Rev docs as far as I can tell but it does seem to work almost exactly as expected.
It returns a comma-delimited list of seven items alright, but if I don't supply a time with the value being converted, rather than providing 0,0,0 for the hour, minutes, and seconds, it puts a value in the hours. In my case, it was 2. I don't know for sure where that came from; it was only 1:05 a.m. when I tried this.
So is this a bug or a modification of HyperTalk behavior I need to know about?
Quoting directly from the documentation - have a look at the description of the CONVERT command:
"Note: If you convert a date without a time to a form that includes the time, the time will be given as 2 AM. (This is the default time because it is the time of day when Daylight Savings Time begins and ends.)"
I hope this helps!
I have found the 'convert' command quite limiting, because it can only convert dates that the host system can handle (ie, in MacOS X it can handle dates only as far back as 1901, and in Windows, supposedly, only up to 1970). I put a bug report about it on the bug database (Bug # 182), but received a message stating that this is basically the way it is supposed to work - even though that is not stated in the documentation...
Regards,
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