Current Date Script

I am using a current date script on my website which works
fine, but I would like to modify it slightly and am unsure how to
do it. I have tried different scripts but was unsuccessful. Here is
what I am currently using:
<script type="text/javascript">
var d=new Date()
var weekday=new
Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
var monthname=new
Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","Octo ber","November","December")
document.write(weekday[d.getDay()] + " ")
document.write(monthname[d.getMonth()] + " ")
document.write(d.getDate() + ", ")
document.write(d.getFullYear())
</script>
As I said, this script works fine. What I would like to do is
instead of having the day display as 1, 2, 3, etc., (December 10,
2007) I would like it to display as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. (December
10th, 2007)
Any help would be appreciated.

The easiest way would be to add another array, like:
var ending=new Array("st","nd","rd","th" ... "st")
where you have all 31 endings for each possible date.
then, on this line:
document.write(d.getDate() + ", ")
change to:
document.write(d.getDate() + ending[d.getDate()-1]+", ")
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JaneGarner wrote:
> I am using a current date script on my website which
works fine, but I would
> like to modify it slightly and am unsure how to do it. I
have tried different
> scripts but was unsuccessful. Here is what I am
currently using:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var d=new Date()
> var weekday=new
>
Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
> var monthname=new
>
Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","Septemb
> er","October","November","December")
> document.write(weekday[d.getDay()] + " ")
> document.write(monthname[d.getMonth()] + " ")
> document.write(d.getDate() + ", ")
> document.write(d.getFullYear())
> </script>
>
> As I said, this script works fine. What I would like to
do is instead of
> having the day display as 1, 2, 3, etc., (December 10,
2007) I would like it to
> display as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. (December 10th, 2007)
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

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var s5Month = Sum(sMonth, 5) // add 5 months
var s5FullYear = sFullYear
// if more than 12 months in new date adjust year on number of months
if (s5Month > "12") then
s5FullYear = Sum(s5FullYear, + 1) // increment year
s5Month = Sum(s5Month, - 12) // adjsut months
endif
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sMsg = Concat(sMsg, "\u000a", "Added 5 months: ", s5MonthsAdded) // display stringxfa.host.messageBox(sMsg, "Sample Adding Days" ,3, 0);
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xfa.host.messageBox(sMsg, "Sample Adding Days and Months" ,3, 0);

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I sorted my downloads folder by creation date and found that the items were sorted seemingly randomly. On closer inspection, I saw that the creation dates were not the same as the dates that I downloaded the items, so I figures that Snow Leopard was using the date given to it by the server.
In order to get the items sorted by download date, I figured I'd use Hazel, but it doesn't have a “change creation date” item. It does, however, have an “run AppleScript” item.
So my question is this: how do I use AppleScript to change the creation date of an item to the current date?

TC (Techno Cat) wrote:
Okay, I tried changing the creation date with SetFile, but it kept giving me an error:
What am I doing wrong?
Looks like the date and time was not quoted
Try this Applescript. It will change the creation date of every file in the Downloads folder to the current date and time:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #E6E6EE;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
set current_date_and_time to do shell script "date \"+%m/%d/%Y %H:%M\""
tell application "Finder"
set filelist to every file of the alias (the path to downloads folder as text)
repeat with currentFile in filelist
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -d " & quoted form of current_date_and_time & space & quoted form of POSIX path of (currentFile as string)
end repeat
end tell</pre>

Check the modification date of a file and compare it to the current date

Hey everyone,
I'm writing a script that compares the modification date of a file to the current date, and performs actions based on whether the file was modified 7 days ago or not. I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to do this.
I haven't been able to find much in the way of this online, and I am not that familiar with manipulating dates and whatnot. I was able to get a bit of it, posted below:
currentDate=`date +%b-%d`
fileDate=`ls -l ~/.backup.txt | awk '{ print $6, $7 }'`
echo "$fileDate"
echo "$currentDate"
if [ "$fileDate" <= "$currentDate" ]; then
echo "old enough to run script"
else
echo "not old enough yet"
fi
Of course, this doesn't work. Any help would be much appreciated. This is for Leopard.
TIA,
Andrew

find ~/.backup.txt -mtime +7 -exec yourscript {} ;
You may need to play with the +7 value to get the exact number of days old the file needs to be.
The find command will accept a directory (actually it is frequently used with directories) and will find all files in that directory and any subdirectories below that match the find selection critiera.
So you could do something like
find ~ -mtime +7 | xargs yourscript
or
find ~ -mtime +7 -name "*.txt" | xargs yourscript
and if your script does not accept multiple filenames on the command line, you can use
find ~ -mtime +7 | xargs -n 1 yourscript
and if your file names have spaces in them, you can use
find ~ -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 yourscript

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