Question

I use this shell script inside applescript:

set Date to (do shell script "date '+%Y-%m-%d'-'%T'")
return Date

It returns this:

"2012-02-15-16:01:05" #[year, month, day and time]

Is there some way to reformat the time to 16:01:05 to 16-01-05. (Obviously I could do a regex on the output, but that will be messy.)

Answer 1

A typical solution using the standard date formatting params is

date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'

Not sure why you have two separate strings in your original i.e. '+%Y-%m-%d'-'%T'

I hope this helps.