Richard.
I get the date you first put in. Tried several, all the way back to the battle of Hastings. All good The negative seconds do the math as well as ordinary ones. The thing went south when I tried the birth of Charlemangne. I suppose thee digit dates are not well received. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 5:54 pm Subject: Beyond POSIX time Try this: on mouseUp put "1/1/69" into t convert t to secs convert t to short date put t end mouseUp Is there yet a convenient way to handle conversion of dates prior to 1/1/70? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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 _______________________________________________ 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
