get date formated

[gurusonwheels]

im trying to get the date and time in a variable
that i can use as part of a filename that will not
have invalided character for a email attachment .

not seeing a format in the dict that uses underscores or dashes .

[Klaus]

What about:
...
replace ":" with "_" in your_date_variable
...
And/or:
...
replace "/" with "_" in your_date_variable
...
You get the picture.

[gurusonwheels]

yep thanks

[AxWald]

Hi,

you could also try this:

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   convert the seconds to dateitems
   put item 1 of it & format("%02s",item 2 of it) & \
         format("%02s",item 3 of it) & format("%02s",item 4 of it) & \
         format("%02s",item 5 of it) into myTS
   put "DateItems: " & it & CR & "TimeStamp: " & myTS

(shows some useful features ;-) )

Have fun!

[MaxV]

Just use the urlencode function: http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/URLEncode

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put urlencode (THE LONG DATE  & the LONG time )

Sunday%2C+April+9%2C+201711%3A39%3A43+AM

or

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put urlencode (THE internet DATE  )

Sun%2C+9+Apr+2017+11%3A57%3A06+%2B0200

or even better:

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put the seconds

1491731863

See http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/Seconds

[Thierry]

you could also try this:

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   convert the seconds to dateitems
   put item 1 of it & format("%02s",item 2 of it) & \
         format("%02s",item 3 of it) & format("%02s",item 4 of it) & \
         format("%02s",item 5 of it) into myTS
   put "DateItems: " & it & CR & "TimeStamp: " & myTS

(shows some useful features )

Have fun!

A slightly different typing but same as yours:

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convert the seconds to dateitems
put "DateItems: " & IT into R
get format( "TimeStamp: %4d%02s%02s%02s%02s", \
         item 1 of IT,  \
         item 2 of IT,  \
         item 3 of IT,  \
         item 4 of IT,  \
         item 5 of IT )
put R &cr& IT

Have even more fun

Regards,

Thierry

[Klaus]

Guys, sometimes you are like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DmE8-Xg0Kg

[Klaus]

Bonjour Thierry,

your last post was nothing that you had to delete!?


Best

Klaus