Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.radio.string.getDateString

on getDateString (when, flIncludeSeconds=true) {
	<<Changes
		<<1/15/01; 11:00:50 AM by DW
			<<Return the time string if it's today, return the date string if it's earlier.
	local (day, month, year, hour, minute, second, nowday, nowmonth, nowyear);
	date.get (when, @day, @month, @year, @hour, @minute, @second);
	date.get (clock.now (), @nowday, @nowmonth, @nowyear, @hour, @minute, @second);
	if (day == nowday) and (month == nowmonth) and (year == nowyear) {
		return (date.timestring (when, flIncludeSeconds))};
	return (date.shortstring (when))}
<<bundle //test code
	<<dialog.alert (getdatestring (date (0)))
	<<dialog.alert (getdatestring (clock.now ()))

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