Is Current Date in the defined List

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#1

I’m trying to do the following:

  1. Get the current date.
  2. See if the current date is in the list.
  3. if the current date is in the list return “Today”.
set vacationDay to {"4/20/06"} as string
set valE to (item 1 of vacationDay) as string
set outPutEE to "Today"
set currentDate to current date
short date string of currentDate
tell application "Finder"
	if valE = currentDate then
		outPutEE
	end if
end tell

Is there another data type that I have to make the list? Any help would be appreciated.

#2

On the first line, you turned the list into a string. On the next line, you try to get the first item of that string, which will now be “4”.

The format of “Short date string” is dependant on an individual’s date/time settings.

There is no need for the Finder in this script.

Here are a couple of ideas.

set vacationDay to {"4/20/06"}
set valE to (item 1 of vacationDay)

tell (current date) to set currentDate to "" & (it's month as integer) & "/" & it's day & "/" & (text -2 thru -1 of (it's year as text))

if valE = currentDate then
	"Today"
end if


set vacationDays to {"4/20/06", "5/29/06"}

tell (current date) to get "" & (it's month as integer) & "/" & it's day & "/" & (text -2 thru -1 of (it's year as text))

if vacationDays contains result then
	"Today"
end if
#3

Thanks for the help. exactly what I need. Greatly appreciate the insight.

#4

The Unix date command is a pretty useful tool too, as it allows flexible formatting with easy to read code. The following returns the date in mm/dd/yy format:

do shell script "date +%m/%d/%y"
#5

When getting the current date, it certainly is. (It’s my preferred way, actually.) However, it doesn’t help when you need to format a date object. Also, note that the particular format used in the above example will add some leading zeros to single digit numbers.

#6

Bruce, can you make the above shell script give the year in a four figure format?

#7

kiwilegal:

Capitalize the Y. date +%m%d%Y = 09052008

Play around with capitalizing (and not) to get different results.

Enjoy!

Jim Neumann
BLUEFROG

#8

Lovely. Thanks