On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Pete wrote: > Hi Andre, > I don't have a definitive answer for you but this sounds like it is > connected to "epoch" dates which are the number of days since Jan 1, 1970. > I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, your dates are being converted > to the epoch format on the WIndows platform that would certainly cause a > problem for dates prior to 1970. I don't know why that would be different > in Windows than OS X.
I'm not sure either, since on Mac OS 9 whenever a date got messed up it would always be set to "12/31/1969" (the day before the Epoch). For Windows, though, this is actually documented under the 'convert' command: "Note: The range of dates that the convertcommand can handle is limited by the operating system's date routines. In particular, Windows systems are limited to dates after 1/1/1970." You'll have to use some other method to calculate your dates, unfortunately. FYI: Here's the info on the Unix Epoch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
