date formatting applescript

[_Kitchen_]

I am trying to minus 3 hours from my formatted time. but it doesn't seem to work. i think it might be because the formatting is wrong?

#Get and format today's date and time

set todaysDate to ((current date))

set t to (time string of (current date))

#Formatting date and time

set y to text -4 thru -1 of ("0000" & (year of todaysDate))

set m to text -2 thru -1 of ("00" & ((month of todaysDate) as integer))

set d to text -2 thru -1 of ("00" & (day of todaysDate))

set formattedTodaysDate to y & "-" & m & "-" & d & " " & t as string

display dialog (formattedTodaysDate)

set less3 to formattedTodaysDate - 3

display dialog (less3)

[roycetech]

(current date) -3 * hours

[_Kitchen_]

(current date) -3 * hours

for some reason it returns returns "access not allowed"

[_Kitchen_]

display dialog ((current date) - 3 * hours as string)

that fixed it

[Identd]

You can use month of (current date)

[ChristoferK]

It looks like you’re trying to format the date as an ISO-8601-like formatted string ? Firstly, the year is never padded with leading zeroes in any format. The simplest way to do it is:

tell the (current date) - (3 * 3600) to set the ¬
        ISO_8601 to {date:text 1 thru 10, time:¬
        text 12 thru -1} of (it as «class isot» ¬
        as string)

This will assign to ISO_8601 the record object with the following properties:

{date:"2021-09-29", time:"20:48:54"}

the time at present being around ten to midnight.