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From: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 1.1 in Review (short)
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Date: 28 Mar 88 12:51:02 GMT
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Reply-To: davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
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This is a repost of a message which I think only went to the UK
last time.

Does the internationalisation of the diary stack etc. involve a
fix of the date conversion bug experienced with UK systems or
is it a work-around?

The bug is that converting to a short UK  date works fine but
converting back to a long date or any other form works as if
the short date was a short US date, This means that any stack
which uses dates in a non-trivial way only works one day a
month.

Try the following on a UK system:

on mouseUp
  put the long date into temp
  put temp && return into card field 1
  convert temp to date
  put temp && return after card field 1
  convert temp to long date
  put temp after card field 1
end mouseUp


Cheers, Dave

Dave Edmondson, QMC, London.      davide@uk.ac.qmc.cs