I've had to deal with international time issues myslef, so here's a code I
developed that should parse the time correctly from whatever settings
(hopefully) the user's machine might have. The "systime" returned is a 24
hour clock: hh:mm
Hope this helps you!
on parseTime me
systime=the short time
-- systime="11:20 PM" -- You can test different time settings here
--just in case the time seperator is not ":",
--this checks for any kind of non-number as seperator,
--and sets the item delimiter to that number:
repeat with i=1 to 3
chr=systime.char[i]
if "0123456789" contains chr then
next repeat
else
the itemDelimiter=chr
end if
end repeat
hour=integer(systime.item[1])
tt=the last word of systime
--check if the time has a PM, pm, Pm or whatever and is less then 13
-- and also convert 12pm into 00:
if (tt contains "P") or (tt contains "p") then
if hour<13 then
hour=hour+12
if hour=24 then
hour=0
end if
end if
end if
hour=string(hour)
if hour.chars.count < 2 then
hour="0"&hour
end if
minute=systime.item[2].word[1]
systime=hour&":"&minute
-- put "systime="&systime
the itemDelimiter=","
return systime
end parseTime
Karina Steffens,
Multimedia Designer/Programmer
Martello Media Ltd.
4 Islington Avenue
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Co. Dublin
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