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B.6. Dates

This section summarizes the properties and classes for the date class.

B.6.1. Date Class Properties

The following table lists classes you use like properties when working with dates. The first five properties can be assigned values.

Class	Description
weekday	day of the week (with the value Sunday, Monday, ... Saturday)
month	month of the year (with the value January, February, ... December)
day	day of the month (1 – 31)
year	Four-digit year number
time	integer time in seconds since midnight
date string	string in the format "Weekday, Month day, year" or a different format depending on the International settings in System Preferences
time string	string in the format "hh:mm:ss AM or PM" or a different format depending on the 24-hour clock and Region settings in System Preferences
short date string	string in the format "mm/dd/yyyy" or a different format depending on the International settings in System Preferences

B.6.2. Predefined Properties for Working with Dates

The following predefined properties can be used when you work with dates. You can changes these val¬ues, but I don't recommend doing so.

Property	Value
minutes	60
hours	3600
days	86400
weeks	604800