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> From: langford@reed.UUCP (Chris Langford)
> Summary: It also messes w/ HyperCard

Simon does not do anything with HyperCard!  It edits the system INTL
and itl resources which all properly written programs (including
Hypercard, bless its little heart) access when it wants date/time
formatting information.

It will "mess" up YOUR hypertalk scripts if you write them in such a
way as to assume an unchanging format of date/time returned by
HyperCard functions, then go and changed this format with Simon. What
else would you expect?

> ...
>         I put Simon in my system folder, and changed the way the dates
> were presented (e.g., from Tuesday, October 18, 1988 to 18 October 1988).
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Then I opened HyperCard and went to my Datebook stack.  I have a script
> that goes to the particular card for that day by finding word 2 of item 2
> of the long date.  Well, suddenly there's no item 2, and the script doesn't
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you REALLY expect there to be an item 2 in "18 October 1988"?

Frank Ng
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