GMT Date Format Anomaly

[clintonG]

When the following code is run on Sat Dec 25 2004 19:54:18 GMT-0600 (Central
Standard Time)

var today = new Date();
var GMTDate = today.toGMTStri ng();
document.write( "GMTDate: " + GMTDate);

The code returns:
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:54:18 GMT (the next day after the code was actually run)

Please advise why the day is in the future and suggest how to get the
correct GMT date format.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

[Lee]

clintonG said:

When the following code is run on Sat Dec 25 2004 19:54:18 GMT-0600 (Central
Standard Time)

var today = new Date();
var GMTDate = today.toGMTStri ng();
document.write ("GMTDate: " + GMTDate);

The code returns:
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:54:18 GMT (the next day after the code was actually run)

Please advise why the day is in the future and suggest how to get the
correct GMT date format.

Are you sure it shows the time as 19:54:18?
At that time CST it *is* the next day in GMT.

[clintonG]

Thank you for your attention. We can scratch that time for now noting the
discrepancy may be because I copied and pasted to make things easier to read
but read or run the following please...

//Example A
//Returns: Sun Dec 26 2004 10:49:25 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
var expDate = new Date( );
document.write( "expDate: " + expDate + "<br />");
//Example B
//Returns: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:49:25 GMT
var today = new Date( );
var myDateString = today.toGMTStri ng( );
document.write( "myDateStri ng: " + myDateString);

I understand what is going on now. Example A uses the Date method that
returns time as CST which is GMT-0600 hours (6 hours less than GMT) so
sitting in front of a computer in a region that uses CST (me) and running
Example B at a time of day less than 6 hours from midnight in Greenwich will
indicate the date as the 'next day' when the the Date( ) method is overriden
by the toGMTString( ) method.

<%= Clinton Gallagher


"Lee" <RE************ **@cox.net> wrote in message
news:cq******** *@drn.newsguy.c om...

clintonG said:

When the following code is run on Sat Dec 25 2004 19:54:18 GMT-0600 (CentralStandard Time)

var today = new Date();
var GMTDate = today.toGMTStri ng();
document.write ("GMTDate: " + GMTDate);

The code returns:
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:54:18 GMT (the next day after the code was actually run)
Please advise why the day is in the future and suggest how to get the
correct GMT date format.

Are you sure it shows the time as 19:54:18?
At that time CST it *is* the next day in GMT.

[Michael Winter]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:03:47 -0600, clintonG
<cs*********@RE MOVETHISTEXTmet romilwaukee.com > wrote:

[snip]

var today = new Date( );
var myDateString = today.toGMTStri ng( );

Just so you know, the toGMTString method is deprecated in favour of the
toUTCString method. The effect if the same, though.

[snip]

Mike
Please don't top-post.

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[clintonG]

Thank you. I'll try that out right now...

<%= Clinton Gallagher

"Michael Winter" <M.******@bluey onder.co.invali d> wrote in message
news:opsjmlj2uo x13kvk@atlantis ...

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:03:47 -0600, clintonG
<cs*********@RE MOVETHISTEXTmet romilwaukee.com > wrote:

[snip]

var today = new Date( );
var myDateString = today.toGMTStri ng( );

Just so you know, the toGMTString method is deprecated in favour of the
toUTCString method. The effect if the same, though.

[snip]

Mike
Please don't top-post.

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[clintonG]

So-called 'we support standards' FireFraud 0.9.3 returns the text GMT in the
string returned by the toUTCString method but the 'evil' IE returns UTC as
expected.

var today = new Date();
var UTCDateTime = today.toUTCStri ng();
document.write( "<b>UTCDateTime : </b>" + UTCDateTime);

<%= Clinton Gallagher
"Michael Winter" <M.******@bluey onder.co.invali d> wrote in message
news:opsjmlj2uo x13kvk@atlantis ...

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:03:47 -0600, clintonG
<cs*********@RE MOVETHISTEXTmet romilwaukee.com > wrote:

[snip]

var today = new Date( );
var myDateString = today.toGMTStri ng( );

Just so you know, the toGMTString method is deprecated in favour of the
toUTCString method. The effect if the same, though.

[snip]

Mike
Please don't top-post.

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[Michael Winter]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:20:47 GMT, clintonG
<cs*********@RE MOVETHISTEXTmet romilwaukee.com > wrote:

Please don't top-post.

So-called 'we support standards' FireFraud 0.9.3 returns the text GMT in
the string returned by the toUTCString method but the 'evil' IE returns
UTC as expected.

There is no defined output format for the method:

"This function returns a string value. The contents of the string
are implementation-dependent, but are intended to represent the
Date in a convenient, human-readable form in UTC."

-- Section 15.9.5.42, ECMA-262

If you need a specific format, it's best to do it yourself.

[snip]

Mike

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[Lee]

clintonG said:

So-called 'we support standards' FireFraud 0.9.3 returns the text GMT in the
string returned by the toUTCString method but the 'evil' IE returns UTC as
expected.

Welcome to the newsgroup.

Referring to popular browsers as "Firefraud" or "Netscrape" , etc is not really a
good way to ensure your popularity or that you will receive the best possible
answers to your questions. You're sure to piss off a few and make a few more
write you off as a childish twit.

Pointing out that IE "makes the trains run on time" isn't going to change many
opinions, anyway.

[Mark Preston]

clintonG wrote:

So-called 'we support standards' FireFraud 0.9.3 returns the text GMT in the
string returned by the toUTCString method but the 'evil' IE returns UTC as
expected.

There is no defined output format for UTC (which is an *internal* means
of representing time set at GMT for general use - pureply "cosmetic") .
The correct display format in ALL cases will be "GMT" and that is what
you should see.

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <R%************ ********@twiste r.rdc-kc.rr.com>, dated
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:22:09, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, clintonG
<cs*********@RE MOVETHISTEXTmet romilwaukee.com > posted :

When the following code is run on Sat Dec 25 2004 19:54:18 GMT-0600 (Central
Standard Time)
Please note that this is an international newsgroup. Terms such as
"Central Standard Time" are therefore not generally helpful, since we do
not know of what it might be the centre. Russia? Australia?
var today = new Date();
var GMTDate = today.toGMTStri ng();
document.write ("GMTDate: " + GMTDate);

The code returns:
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:54:18 GMT (the next day after the code was actually run)

Please advise why the day is in the future and suggest how to get the
correct GMT date format.

There is something wrong with your system or its operator.
Note : this response to your article is formatted in accordance with
standard usenet recommendations endorsed by the Wednesday edition of the
FAQ (which you should have read) of this newsgroup.

Note : Americans, and the software that they originate, traditionally
have a very poor understanding of date and time, except as it applies in
CONUS, maybe AK & HI, and just possibly CA (the region which prevents AK
from being an island). It is not only non-Americans that need to allow
for that.

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