RE: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-23 Thread Sean Wilson
I don't see a TN about it so I'll see about having one posted. Thanks again for your tireless efforts on our behalf Tom. Cheers, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-22 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 03:33 schrieb Daniel Nelson: _movie.systemDate() thanks, somehow I missed that. in the _movie object I tried it only as property _movie.systemdate, which yields an error. it makes totally sense, that it is a function rather than a property, as it creates and returns an

RE: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-22 Thread Tim Welford
If you use BuddyApi check out baSystemTime which is great and will allow you to output the data\time in just about any format you can think of. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 21 September 2005 23:14 To:

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-22 Thread Daniel Nelson
Yes. It's a bit weird. I just found it by trial and error. Regards, Daniel _movie.systemDate() Thanks for that. Would you agree that this particular method (property?) belongs more aptly to the _system object? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
Thanks for that. Would you agree that this particular method (property?) I would too and as such I long ago filed a bug against that but don't see a TN about it so I'll see about having one posted. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Sean Wilson
Is there a dot-syntax way of getting the year, month, and day? I can get it by parsing _system.date(), but the year/month/day order depends on the system's country settings. put (the systemDate).day put (the systemDate).month put (the systemDate).year Also, is there a way to get the time in

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Luke Wigley
Hi Kerry , You can from a dateObject (which is in a standard format) to get the year/month/dayseconds from midnight. dateObj= (the systemDate) or dateObj = date(2004, 12, 31) or dateObj = date(20041231) or if you want to include hours/minutes/seconds, it seems that you have to set the

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Cole Tierney
At 11:34 AM +1200 9/22/05, Sean Wilson wrote: -- with some trimming (leading/trailing whitespace, fractional seconds): put framesToHMS( (the systemDate).seconds, 1, 0, 0 ) Great tip! I was just about to post a big old ugly lingo one-liner (mostly as a joke!). Oh what the heck (watch for line

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 01:34 schrieb Sean Wilson: the systemDate seems to be another of the omissions in the current round of docs but remains *much* more useful than most of the other date/time format offerings. not only it is missing in the docs, but also is this extremely useful global

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Nelson
_movie.systemDate() Regards, Daniel Alex da Franca wrote: Am 22.09.2005 um 01:34 schrieb Sean Wilson: the systemDate seems to be another of the omissions in the current round of docs but remains *much* more useful than most of the other date/time format offerings. not only it is