Re: Understanding the Convert Command

[Gregory Lypny]

Thanks for clearing that up Sarah!  I'm bewildered why a bug such as 
this would be left unfixed for so long given the importance of date 
comparisons and calculations in many applications.

        Gregory Lypny
        __________________________
        Associate Professor of Finance
        John Molson School of Business
        Concordia University
        Montreal, Canada
On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

Hi Greg,
No need for confusion or embarrassment :-)
This is a known bug that I was ranting about for months but I thought
it had been fixed in Rev 2.5 - what version are you using?
Here is a link to the bug which will give you all the info.
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=1162>
I wrote a bugFixConvert routine to do conversions without adding the
hour and I have also written a routine that uses AppleScript to find
the number of minutes or seconds of daylight saving currently in use.
If you would like either of these, email me off-list.
Cheers,
Sarah
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http://www.troz.net/Rev/
On 20 Nov 2004, at 4:23 pm, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Having trouble understanding the Convert command.  I'm playing with
the following handler and using day/month/year format.
on mouseUp
  set useSystemDate to true
  get fld "date"
  convert it to long date and long time
  put it into fld "converted date"
end mouseUp
The online documentation for the Convert command notes:
"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.)"
If I enter 1/10/2004 in the date field, I get Friday, October 01, 2004
3:00:00 AM, which is not 2 AM.  And if I enter 1/10/2004 0:00:00, I
get Friday, October 01, 2004 1:00:00 AM.
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