I have been using a tidy little routine that I found here to calculate the difference in days between two dates in AS3. I am getting some strange results and I am wondering if any of you inter-codal-mega-lords can shed some light?
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how can I get Flash to find the difference (in days) between two dates that the user enters? For example if I have six input text boxes and I call them:
day1
month1
year1
day2
month2
year2
respectively, how can I get a dynamic text box called, say, "output" to find the difference between two dates that the user enters into the six text boxes, e.g.
day1 - The user enters 03
month1 - The user enters 09
year 1 - The user enters 2006
day2 - The user enters 25
month2 - The user enters 12
year2 - The user enters 2006
How do I get Flash to find the difference between today and Christmas?
I use this script currently to determine the difference between two dates:
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The problem with this is I want to monitor the actual physical day change so if someone accessed the application at 11:59 PM and then came back 5 minutes later this would register as a 1 day difference (a new day), this current script requires atleast 12 hours to have passed between two dates for it to register as a new day.
I have thought about using the date number etc, but because months and years are so different it is quite a complex route, there must be something simpler.
can the date object be used to determine the calendar dates of the days preceding and following today?i.e.- if i use the date object to return that today is Wednesday, October 10, can i use it to determine that yesterday was October 11 and Tomorrow is October 12?I need to be able to do this for a custom application that displays info per MTWTF..i need to be able to have it automatically display real calendar dates (so it knows if it's the 31st or 28th or whatever and the next day is the 1st).
View 1 RepliesI'm hitting a wall on this one. My script finds the difference in hours between 2 dates, however..
var data:Array = ["2011-08-30 11:19:19", "01-09-2011 02"];
var aDate:String = data[0].split(" ")[0];
var dateElements:Array = aDate.split("-");
var date1:Date = new Date();
date1.setDate(int(dateElements[2]));
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As you can see, the date elements trace out the way they should. Now try changing the first element of the data array to "2011-08-31 11:19:19". Although the date elements are fine, the last trace gives a totally weird value. What's even weirder is that when compiling this script a second time in Flash IDE, it takes a long time to compile, then traces nothing at all, as if the script times out.
So I have 2 dates
Current Date
Event Date
Which traces
Current Date: Mon Feb 9 14:45:43 GMT-0500 2009
Event Date: Mon Feb 9 15:32:51 GMT-0500 2009
Now what I am trying to do is compare those dates and output the difference.
I'm trying to find the difference (in days) between a date and the end of the year.
This code:
Code:
var NewYear = new Date((new Date()).getFullYear(), 11, 31);
var CalcDate = new Date();
DiffInDays = Math.floor((NewYear - CalcDate)/86400000);
Is nearly right, but it seems to be a couple of days out - If I run it as at today (Feb 23rd 2011), It gives me 310 days till the end of the year, whereas (by counting on all my fingers and toes) I get 313 days.
I would like to see different colors in my DateChooser / CalendarLayout for weekdays and weekend days. I would also like to achieve this using a custom stylename (for example: "weekColor" and "weekendColor".
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View 1 RepliesOn the DateChooser component, it shows the days for only the current month... but i'd like to show some of the previous month's days and some of the next month's days.Is there a property to set on the DateChooser component to show 42 days. I mean, to show some of the previous month's days + the current month's days + some of the next month's days. I'm not sure what this is called...If you look at a typical month calendar, for example for June 2011 it shows:
S M T W Th F Sa
20 30 31 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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Is there a property that I've overlooked which shows some of the days from the prev. month and next month in the current month view? Or would I need to extend the DateChooser component and override a method?
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here where i go :
I search a way (fonction or class or method) to get the seven day for a weeknumber.
For example, myfunction(34,2009) will return :
2009-08-17
2009-08-18
2009-08-19
2009-08-20
2009-08-21
2009-08-22
2009-08-23
We have an application in which the user has to enter a date who's value is no more than 30 days after the the current date (the date on which the user uses the application). This is a Flash application, therefore I need a way to add 30 days to the current date, and get the right date. [code]...
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ActionScript Code:
month = 5
year = 2010
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creating a script for "Days without Accident" counter, that the end user would be able not only reset, but choose the number of days to begin the count down with, without interfering with the script.
View 4 RepliesHow does one Compare Dates, as in
If (sampleDate is before TodaysDate) {
do something
}elseif (sampleDate is after TodaysDate) {
do something else
}
Whats the best way to receive AMF dates? The queue is an array of vo objects, and some testing vars.
My VO
public var itemID:uint;
public var itemSource:String;
public var itemCategory:String;
public var itemTitle:String;
public var dateString:String;
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View 2 Repliesi created a DATE object.
Code:
var myTime:Date = new Date(2008,9,19,12,0,0);
now I would like to add 7 days to myTime. do I need to convert myTime to milliseconds? how can I do this?
P.S. Im using AS 3.0
I've got a number of days from the date to today. Like 1689 days. How can I get from this the date subtraction past days with date?
View 1 RepliesI have a calendar written in Flash (ActionScript). The calendar displays events on it. I am seeing an issue today (March 31) with any months that have less than 31 days in them. Here's the code:
myDateate = new Date();
myDate.setUTCFullYear(2011);
myDate.setUTCMonth(3); //April
myDate.setUTCDate(21);
Alert.show(myDate.toDateString()); <-- Shows May 21, 2011
This is also broken for ANY month that has less than 31 days. So if I was to substitute 1 (feb), 5 (june), 8 (sept), or 10 (nov), it will show me the following month rather than the month I specify. If I set my system clock to April 1, the alert shows the correct date I specified which is April 21, 2011. Has anybody else experienced this kind of behavior? This is also broken if i use the non-UTC methods.
I am trying to out put a date that is 7 days ahead of the current date, I think I start of like thistodayDate = new Date()And then somehow it goes
View 2 Repliesi created a DATE object.Code:var myTime:Date = new Date(2008,9,19,12,0,0);now I would like to add 7 days to myTime.do I need to convert myTime to milliseconds?
View 1 RepliesI'm using this script
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("loader_mc", 0);
loadVariables("assets/flash/splash/deadlines2.txt", loader_mc);
// Variables declaration
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into the txt file i get 23.9583333333333 Days. Which 23 isn't right even. plus i don't need any of those decimals.
i created a DATE object.
Code:
var myTime:Date = new Date(2008,9,19,12,0,0);
now I would like to add 7 days to myTime. do I need to convert myTime to milliseconds?
how can I do this?
for my latest task at work, oh what joy, i have to create a small banner thing which reads data from a text file... BUT... it only reads from the text file IF there is a text file present which i labeled TODAYS date!
Get todays date IF there is a file present in a certain directory which is called todays date.txt (ie. 02042006) then it reads the info in that text file and prints it into a certain area in the flash file. If there is nothing present it just displays the default stuff!!
