Various dates to date

[hisara]

I have lots of dates like these:
July 7, 2010
7. 31. 2011
tuesday, june 10th, 2010
...

My AppleScript needs to be able to convert date, which is written in any format to yymmdd format.

How i can do this? Thanks

[acme.mail.order]

PHP has a strtotime() function that works very well - you could set something up with a `do shell script ... ` line.

[hisara]

Quote: Originally Posted by acme.mail.order PHP has a strtotime() function that works very well - you could set something up with a `do shell script ... ` line.

I did not know that PHP can be run like this. I know nothing about PHP.

This works, but how i need to change strtotime row, so it converts dates?
do shell script "php -q " & quoted form of POSIX path of "/Users/Hisara/Desktop/date.txt"

date.txt:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

echo strtotime("now"), "\n";
?>

And how i can have multiple lines of code without using external txt file? This fails:

do shell script "php -q date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
echo strtotime("now"), "\n";"

Thanks

[NovaScotian]

If you'd prefer plain vanilla AppleScript then this works if the dates don't include things like "10th" or "3rd". Of course those could be filtered out if your dates do:

set tDates to {"July 7, 2010", "7. 31. 2011", "tuesday, june 10, 2010"}
set Reslt to {}
repeat with aDate in tDates
	set someDate to date aDate
	set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to (someDate)
	set end of Reslt to text 3 thru -1 of ((y * 10000 + m * 100 + d) as string)
end repeat
--> {"100707", "110731", "100610"}

[acme.mail.order]

Quote: Originally Posted by hisara I did not know that PHP can be run like this. I know nothing about PHP. This works, but how i need to change strtotime row, so it converts dates? do shell script "php -q " & quoted form of POSIX path of "/Users/Hisara/Desktop/date.txt"

If you want to make a batch file just have PHP read the file directly. fopen() or file_get_contents();

If you prefer to have (almost) everything done via Applescript just put the entire php command on one line. Build it as a string.

Quote: echo strtotime("now"), "\n";

That will give you a unixtime integer. Explore the date() function. The line break is optional.