centuryCutoff

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:15 pm

Is there a way to disable the centuryCutoff property?

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:34 am

No, there isn't - it's necessary for Revolution to be able to determine whether a date is in the 20th or 21st century. What problem are you encountering that needs to be solved?

Jan Schenkel.

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:01 am

I need to run dates a few hundred years forward in an astronomy program.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:42 am

Dear NZN37,

Why don't you use four-digit years?

Kind regards,

Mark

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:47 pm

"Why don't you use four-digit years? "

CenturyCutoff still interferes.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:29 pm

Dear NZN37,

You might want to provide just a little bit more info to enable me and others to help you.

Kind regards,

Mark

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:52 pm

Mark wrote:
You might want to provide just a little bit more info to enable me and others to help you.

If this handler produced the correct date everything would be fine:

on mouseUp
put the long date into temp
convert temp to seconds
repeat 100
add 1.6*365.25*86400 to temp
end repeat
convert temp to long date
put temp
end mouseUp

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:12 pm

Dear NZN37,

After running your script, I get

Sunday, March 5, 2169

in the message box. Is this wrong? What should it be?

Best,

Mark

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:31 pm

Mark wrote:After running your script, I get Sunday, March 5, 2169

I get Friday, December 13, 1901.

mroam · Post by **mroam** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:27 pm

I'm also getting "Monday, March 6, 2169" on my computer (mac, osX 10.5). What kind of machine are you on, and what do you get if you try the following script?

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local temp
put the long date into temp 
convert temp to seconds 
convert temp to internet date
answer temp

maybe the long date or the dateFormat are working strangely on your computer.

NZN37 · Post by **NZN37** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:42 pm

mroam wrote:I'm also getting "Monday, March 6, 2169" on my computer (mac, osX 10.5). What kind of machine are you on, and what do you get if you try the following script?
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local temp
put the long date into temp 
convert temp to seconds 
convert temp to internet date
answer temp
maybe the long date or the dateFormat are working strangely on your computer.

I get Thu, 5 Mar 2009 02:00:00 -0700 using your code. Mac osX 10.5.6, Rev version 2.7.2