Language Guide

CHAPTER 3

Values

Value Class Deﬁnitions 47

REFERENCE FORMS

You can refer to properties of a Date value using the Property reference form.

weekday of date "May 3, 1993"

--result: Monday

time of date "May 3, 1993"

--result: "12:00 AM"

Note that AppleScript ﬁlls in a default time property for the date speciﬁed in

the second example.

If you want to specify a time relative to a date, you can do so as follows:

date "2:30 am" of date "May 3, 1993"

--result: date "May 3, 1993 2:30 AM"

date "Sept. 27, 1993" relative to date "3PM"

--result: date "September 27, 1993 3:00 PM"

In addition to of, you can also use the synonyms relative to or in for

this purpose.

COERCIONS SUPPORTED

AppleScript supports coercion of a Date value to a single-item list or a string.

NOTES

Regardless of the format you use when you type a date in a script, AppleScript

always displays Date values in the format shown in the following example,

which includes the full name of the day of the week and month and no leading

zeros for the date.

date "Sunday, January 3, 1992 12:05 PM"

If you don’t specify a complete date, day, and time when typing a Date value,

AppleScript ﬁlls in information as needed. If you don’t specify the date

information, AppleScript uses the date when the script is compiled. If you