"Month" of date behaves differently inside a "tell current date"

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#1

This isn’t exactly a problem, it’s easy to deal with. I just noticed this unintuitive difference in behavior.

set currentDate to the current date
set theMonth to the month of currentDate
set theDay to the day of currentDate
set theYear to the year of currentDate

Results:
currentDate: date “Monday, January 4, 2021 at 6:21:46 PM”
theMonth: January
theDay: 4
theYear: 2021

set currentDate to the current date
tell currentDate
	set theMonth to the month
	set theDay to the day
	set theYear to the year
end tell

Results:
currentDate: date “Monday, January 4, 2021 at 6:21:46 PM”
theMonth: month
theDay: 4
theYear: 2021

“month” seems to be a recognized term by Applescript in a different manner from “day” and “year.”

#2

Yes. In that situation, you have to use ‘its month’ so that the compiler knows it’s the month property of a date that’s meant and not the month class. Similarly with ‘hours’ and ‘minutes’ (both constants) and ‘seconds’.