why can't I change a date's time in Applescript?

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#1

I’ve got an Applescript for InDesign CS6 on Mountain Lion and the simplest task of setting a date’s time seems to no longer work. I can create a new date object (d) initialized with the current date, change each value

set d to current date --works fine
set month of d to tempMonth --works fine
set day of d to tempDay --works fine
set year of d to “20” & tempPubYear --works fine
set dayOfWeek to weekday of d --works fine
set time of d to 0 --ERROR

It used to work in earlier versions of InDesign/Mac OS X but now that last line shows up as an error. What is going on? I checked d and my variables and all are showing what they should be showing, except that darn time won’t change to zero.

#2

Hi,

I’m using this for years to reset the time portion of a date


tell (current date) to set d to it - (its time)
#3

It should still work. What error are you getting?

#4

Hi,

It’s working for me also:

set d to current date --works fine
set month of d to 1 --works fine
set day of d to 1 --works fine
set year of d to "20" & "12" --works fine
set dayOfWeek to weekday of d --works fine
set time of d to 0 -- NO ERROR
d
--> date "Sunday, January 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM"

Maybe take it out of the Indesign tell block?

gl,
kel

#5

Stack overflow.

And taking it out of the tell block changes the error message to “Adobe InDesign CS6 got an error: Can’t set time of date “Monday, October 14, 2013 4:21:50 PM” to 0.”

#6

Try putting vertical bars around ‘time’. That’s just a guess without thinking.

Edited: no disregard. Vertical bars is to create a variable.

#7

According to the error, you should be able to set the time of the ‘date’ to 0 out of the tell block.

gl,
kel

#8

As a workaround, you could use:

set cur_date to (current date)
set date_string to date string of cur_date
set last_midnight to date date_string

until you find out what’s wrong.

gl,
kel

#9

Hello.

Clearly a kludge, but this ought to work!

set dt to (current date)

tell dt
	set {its hours, its minutes, its seconds} to {0, 0, 0}
end tell