Bug: Weekday of Document Date is off by one day and crashes for Sundays

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Just starting out with smart rules and scripting … and already encountered a curious bug:

I have a smart rule for renaming pdfs created from screenshots that contain a date. The smart rule action Change Name contains the placeholders Sortable Document Date and Weekday of Document Date.

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Applying the rule to pdfs with various dates in the document results in filenames with a correct sortable date and a wrong weekday that is off by one day: e.g. instead of ‘2022-12-06 Tuesday’, it is ‘2022-12-06 Monday’.

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Even worse: if the document contains a date of a Sunday, then DEVONthink crashes without changing the name.

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Just in case, I tested changing the system setting for First Day of Week from Monday to Sunday, but that does not seem to have an effect on the issue.

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Please choose Help > Report Bug while pressing the Alt modifier key and send the result to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com including an example document/screenshot - thanks!

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Why do you have mixed locales for your weekdays, i.e. they’re German at the bottom of your screenshot but English on top? Put differently: It seems that DT is running in an English locale, whereas other software on the same Mac run in a German one.

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sent the crash logs

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My system is set to English because most all support information on the Internet is in English and it’s much easier for me if menu commands and such are the same.
I just tried to change DEVONthink’s interface language to German, but couldn’t find an option - maybe it always uses the system language?

Actually, it didn’t even occur to me to expect a German output for the Weekday function :blush:. Maybe someone with a German system could test this? I’d rather not change mine.

The example above was a pdf created from a screenshot of a German webpage. This does not seem to be a problem for the scan text action.

I also tested my smart rule with a minimal pdf containing just an English format date and it crashed too.

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It does, as does (or should do) every other app on your Mac.

Which seems to indicate that the issue is not related to locale settings.

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What operating system are you running?

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The most recent - Ventura 13.0.1

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Exactly.
My guess is this could be an issue with a zero- vs. one-based array for the names of the days. So, if some code assumes that day[0]=“Sunday”, day[1]=“Monday” and so on, when in fact day[1]=“Sunday”, day[2]=“Monday” etc., while day[0] is undefined - that would explain the day’s name being off by one or crashing when trying to access day[0]
Of course, there shouldn’t be a crash but a graceful exit with an error message …

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It’s a little bit more complicated but the next release will fix this.

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That’s great to hear! Thank you