Learning from the other side
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:05 am
We would be churlish (and so would they) to ignore somethings going on 'up north', especially when they impinge directly on what we have inherited from them.
The 'thing' that caught my eye this morning was this:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... ma#p226539
and, to save anyone the bother of 'taking a walk on the tame side', I will quote the meaty bits here:
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Gives me "Wednesday, November 1, 2023" yet my system date is set to Australia (day before month), my Mac showing "Wed 1 Nov" in the menu bar and elsewhere showing local date format at all times.
Same with "put the system date" into the message box, gives me "11/1/23" not "1/11/23", as does "put the date" of course.
MacOS 14.0"
As (Sunday) I am at home, and my machine running MacOS 14 is now at school (so check tomorrow), I can ONLY see what happens 'here' on my MacOS 12 machine:
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Certainly, 'over here' (MacOS 12) I can see no obvious problems.
The 'thing' that caught my eye this morning was this:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... ma#p226539
and, to save anyone the bother of 'taking a walk on the tame side', I will quote the meaty bits here:
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on mouseUp
set the useSystemDate to true
put the long date into field "f1"
end mouseUpSame with "put the system date" into the message box, gives me "11/1/23" not "1/11/23", as does "put the date" of course.
MacOS 14.0"
As (Sunday) I am at home, and my machine running MacOS 14 is now at school (so check tomorrow), I can ONLY see what happens 'here' on my MacOS 12 machine:
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Code: Select all
on mouseUp
set the useSystemDate to true
put the long date into field "f1"
put the system date into field "f2"
end mouseUp
