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From: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Date Conversion
Message-ID: <1137@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 89 15:58:38 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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1.2.2 still has a bug left over from the first release relating
to UK/US date formats.
Converting the date from long or abbr format to a short date
works fine, the result is a correct UK format date. i.e.:

Tuesday, June 27,1989 --> 27/6/89

However converting the short date back to a long assumes it was
a US format date:

27/6/89 --> Saturday, October 14, 1989

To do the conversion right you have to swap the day/month in a
script before converting. If it can get it right going into a
short date can't it do it the other way?

-- 
David Edmondson

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