Weird date stuff...

[John Kiernan]

Hey JavaScript gurus!

Here's a weird one:

If I check (with an alert) this line:
vStrDate2 = vDate.toLocaleString();

I get: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:57:30 PM (as I should)

but this operation...

vStrDate = vDate.getMonth() + "/" + vDate.getDate() + "/" + vDate.getYear();

Avails me: 7/14/2004 (!?!?!?!)

I check my computer date and it definitely believes (as do I) that it is
August. Any idea why getmonth() thinks it's July?

Also, is there an easier way to get this American date string?

TIA!

-- John Kiernan, KierPro Associates
Custom VFP/Accounting Programming
and Web interfaces
VFP and/or SQL back ends

[John Kiernan]

Okay, I figured out I should just do:

vStrDate = vDate()

(I'm new, bear with me), but....

It still thinks it's July!?!?! Anybody know why?

TIA, redux...

-- John Kiernan, KierPro Associates
Custom VFP/Accounting Programming
and Web interfaces
VFP and/or SQL back ends
"John Kiernan" <ki********@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Kk*****************@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...

Hey JavaScript gurus!

Here's a weird one:

If I check (with an alert) this line:
vStrDate2 = vDate.toLocaleString();

I get: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:57:30 PM (as I should)

but this operation...

vStrDate = vDate.getMonth() + "/" + vDate.getDate() + "/" + vDate.getYear();
Avails me: 7/14/2004 (!?!?!?!)

I check my computer date and it definitely believes (as do I) that it is
August. Any idea why getmonth() thinks it's July?

Also, is there an easier way to get this American date string?

TIA!

-- John Kiernan, KierPro Associates
Custom VFP/Accounting Programming
and Web interfaces
VFP and/or SQL back ends

[Lee]

John Kiernan said:

Hey JavaScript gurus!

Here's a weird one:

If I check (with an alert) this line:
vStrDate2 = vDate.toLocaleString();

I get: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:57:30 PM (as I should)

but this operation...

vStrDate = vDate.getMonth() + "/" + vDate.getDate() + "/" + vDate.getYear();

Avails me: 7/14/2004 (!?!?!?!)

I check my computer date and it definitely believes (as do I) that it is
August. Any idea why getmonth() thinks it's July?

It doesn't think it's July. Month 7 is August. Month 0 is January.
That makes it much easier to use as an index into an array of month names.

See the FAQ and the references it contains for date manipulation.
http://www.jibbering.com/faq/

[John Kiernan]

>>See the FAQ and the references it contains for date manipulation.

http://www.jibbering.com/faq/
I'd love to (and tried) but it's been down all day. Thanks for the answer
on the question though...

-- John Kiernan, KierPro Associates
Custom VFP/Accounting Programming
and Web interfaces
VFP and/or SQL back ends
"Lee" <RE**************@cox.net> wrote in message
news:cf*********@drn.newsguy.com...

John Kiernan said:

Hey JavaScript gurus!

Here's a weird one:

If I check (with an alert) this line:
vStrDate2 = vDate.toLocaleString();

I get: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:57:30 PM (as I should)

but this operation...

vStrDate = vDate.getMonth() + "/" + vDate.getDate() + "/" +

vDate.getYear();
Avails me: 7/14/2004 (!?!?!?!)

I check my computer date and it definitely believes (as do I) that it is
August. Any idea why getmonth() thinks it's July?

It doesn't think it's July. Month 7 is August. Month 0 is January.
That makes it much easier to use as an index into an array of month names.

See the FAQ and the references it contains for date manipulation.
http://www.jibbering.com/faq/

[Michael Winter]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:46:05 GMT, John Kiernan <ki********@verizon.net>
wrote:

See the FAQ and the references it contains for date manipulation.
http://www.jibbering.com/faq/

I'd love to (and tried) but it's been down all day. [...]

Yes, it has. However, the FAQ is posted three times a week. From the FAQ:

"The FAQ will currently be posted in two parts, one part (the
Quick Answers) on Mondays and Fridays, with the remainder posted
on wednesdays."

The post on Friday was made just before 1200 GMT.

[snip]

Mike

--
Michael Winter
Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <hU*****************@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>, dated Sun,
15 Aug 2004 04:46:05, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, John Kiernan
<ki********@verizon.net> posted :

See the FAQ and the references it contains for date manipulation.
http://www.jibbering.com/faq/
I'd love to (and tried) but it's been down all day. Thanks for the answer
on the question though...

-- John Kiernan, KierPro Associates
Custom VFP/Accounting Programming
and Web interfaces
VFP and/or SQL back ends

Responses should go after trimmed quotes. The correct signature
delimiter is a line containing only minus minus space . Agreed about
jibbering down-ness; perhaps there should be a mirror at a reliable ISP?
Garbo might be willing to take it, and Garbo is itself mirrored ...

>Avails me: 7/14/2004 (!?!?!?!)

For Web use, the Web being international, you should use 2004-08-14
19:57:30, and add a time zone indication. AIUI, YYYY-MM-DD is in FIPS.

It doesn't think it's July. Month 7 is August. Month 0 is January.
That makes it much easier to use as an index into an array of month names.

You exaggerate. Adding 1, or using MNA = ['', 'Jan', 'Feb', ... is not
really difficult.

--
© John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v4.00 MIME. ©
Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms
PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm
Dates - miscdate.htm moredate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc.