Hey Calion,
Dealing with dates is pretty simple; it’s just a bit verbose.
set _date to current date
set dateString1 to date string of _date # Date-String depends upon the system date setting.
set dateString2 to YYYYMMDD(_date, "/")
set dateString3 to YYYYMMDD(_date, "-")
set _date to date "Thursday, May 04, 1961 at 11:30:00 GMT-5"
set dateString4 to YYYYMMDD(_date, ".")
on YYYYMMDD(_date, _sep)
set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, _sep}
tell _date
set dateString to (get {its year, text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (its month as number)), text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & its day)}) as text
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS
return dateString
end YYYYMMDD
set {year:yyyy, month:m, day:d, weekday:w} to (current date) # Per Nigel on this page.
yyyy
m as number
d
w as text
If you want something more straightforward then use the Satimage.osax or the shell.
Satimage.osax
set dateStringSIO to strftime (current date) into “%Y/%m/%d”
Using the shell
set dateStringShell to do shell script “date ‘+%Y/%m/%d’”