Running j/s only at certain times of the year?

[Mika]

Hi all

Is there a small addition we can make to a .js file, so that it will only be
read during certain times of the year and ignored at the others? It's for a
Christmas promo.

We want it to run only from 1 Nov - 10 Jan, any year.

Thanks.

Mika

[Julien Royer]

Hi,

The best solution would be to use a server language to include the JS
file conditionally in the HTML.

If it's not possible, you can use the following JS code to check the
date:

var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {
// ...
}

Julien

On Nov 21, 10:55 am, "Mika" <[e-mail]:

Hi all

Is there a small addition we can make to a .js file, so that it will only be
read during certain times of the year and ignored at the others? It's for a
Christmas promo.

We want it to run only from 1 Nov - 10 Jan, any year.

Thanks.

Mika

[Mika]

Thanks, what is the result of the calculation you put below?

If it is easier we can just go by month, so what we want it to say is:

Is the month Nov or Dec?
No? = Stop script here
Yes? = Continue script...
....then we have our seasonal j/s code here.

Can anyone provide the exact code to place at the top of our .js file to
enable this?

Thanks.

"Julien Royer" <el*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:ee**********************************@b32g2000 hsa.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

The best solution would be to use a server language to include the JS
file conditionally in the HTML.

If it's not possible, you can use the following JS code to check the
date:

var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {
// ...
}

Julien

On Nov 21, 10:55 am, "Mika" <[e-mail]:

>Hi all

Is there a small addition we can make to a .js file, so that it will only
be
read during certain times of the year and ignored at the others? It's
for a
Christmas promo.

We want it to run only from 1 Nov - 10 Jan, any year.

Thanks.

Mika

[Randy Webb]

Mika said the following on 11/21/2007 5:41 AM:

Thanks, what is the result of the calculation you put below?

If you can't figure that out, you might not want to be mucking with js
files.

If it is easier we can just go by month, so what we want it to say is:

Is the month Nov or Dec?
No? = Stop script here
Yes? = Continue script...
...then we have our seasonal j/s code here.

That is what the code does.

Can anyone provide the exact code to place at the top of our .js file to
enable this?

What people can do and what people will do are two different things.

Please don't top-post. And please don't quote my signature if you reply
to this post.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
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Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Evertjan.]

Randy Webb wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {

A variation,
[this works EVERY year,
the year 2000 is just for internal use]:

var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Randy Webb]

Evertjan. said the following on 11/22/2007 4:54 AM:

Randy Webb wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

>var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {

A variation,
[this works EVERY year,
the year 2000 is just for internal use]:

var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');

I didn't write the one I posted, I copied it from an earlier post in the
thread. But, I actually like your version better because it allows you
to simply change the dates for the range, rather than having to re-write
the if statement completely.

Changing it to a 1/10 - 2/14 message would be a lot simpler in yours
than the first one.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Mika]

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.netwrote in message
news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...

Randy Webb wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

>var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {

A variation,
[this works EVERY year,
the year 2000 is just for internal use]:

var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');

That's brilliant Evertjan, works like a charm. Now it snows at our site
only in the winter! If only there were a way for j/s to determine what
season it is in the user's country ;) (Joke!)

[Mika]

"Randy Webb" <Hi************@aol.comwrote in message
news:9s*********************@giganews.com...

Mika said the following on 11/21/2007 5:41 AM:

>Thanks, what is the result of the calculation you put below?

If you can't figure that out, you might not want to be mucking with js
files.

Got to start somewhere, you didn't need to reply if you didn't want to
assist.

>Can anyone provide the exact code to place at the top of our .js file to
enable this?

What people can do and what people will do are two different things.

Fascinating.

Please don't top-post. And please don't quote my signature if you reply to
this post.

As not everybody can be right, and as some people believe top-posting is
right, others like bottom-posting, my own rule is to reply in keeping with
the previous post. As Evertjen top-posted, so did I to keep the flow. It
is easier to read that way.

Mika, who doesn't tend to quote people's signatures even without 'being
told', and is trying to work out why many j/s programmers are so angry all
the time.

[Evertjan.]

Mika wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

As Evertjen top-posted, so did I to keep the flow.

"Evertjen", never seen that name,
but I suppose you mean me, Mika.

If I ever did top-post,
it must have been more than 20 years ago.

It is easier to read that way.

It seems you cann't either way.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Randy Webb]

Mika said the following on 11/22/2007 12:48 PM:

"Randy Webb" <Hi************@aol.comwrote in message
news:9s*********************@giganews.com...

>Mika said the following on 11/21/2007 5:41 AM:

>>Thanks, what is the result of the calculation you put below?

If you can't figure that out, you might not want to be mucking with js
files.

Got to start somewhere, you didn't need to reply if you didn't want to
assist.

I didn't "need" to reply even if I wanted to assist. I replied for no
other reason than I wanted to. That's the way Usenet works sometimes.
You may want to read my reply to Mika though. It explains *exactly* what
you needed to know.

>>Can anyone provide the exact code to place at the top of our .js file to
enable this?

What people can do and what people will do are two different things.

Fascinating.

Glad I could fascinate you.

>Please don't top-post. And please don't quote my signature if you reply to
this post.

As not everybody can be right, and as some people believe top-posting is
right, others like bottom-posting, my own rule is to reply in keeping with
the previous post. As Evertjen top-posted, so did I to keep the flow. It
is easier to read that way.

You may want to re-read Evertjan's post, then go remove your foot from
your mouth. Or at least put some seasoning on it :)

Mika, who doesn't tend to quote people's signatures even without 'being
told', and is trying to work out why many j/s programmers are so angry all
the time.

It isn't limited to JS programmers, it's a Usenet thing.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Mika]

"Evertjan." <ex**************@interxnl.netwrote in message
news:Xn********************@194.109.133.242...

Mika wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

>As Evertjen top-posted, so did I to keep the flow.

"Evertjen", never seen that name,
but I suppose you mean me, Mika.

I am so sorry, I typed an 'e' instead of 'a'. I hope you can find a way to
forgive me in time.

If I ever did top-post,
it must have been more than 20 years ago.

Apologies, it was Julien Royer who I was responding to who top-posted.

>It is easier to read that way.

It seems you cann't either way.

Cann't is spelt either "can't" or "cannot", seeing as this is the pedantic
thread.

Anyway, as I said, thanks for the working code. Sorry your response to my
praise was to pick holes in my reply. Geeez...

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <Xn********************@194.109.133.242>
, Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:54:39, Evertjan. <ex**************@interxnl.net>
posted:

>Randy Webb wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

>var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {

A variation,
[this works EVERY year,
the year 2000 is just for internal use]:

var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');

I think Mika wanted to include the 10th of January; that will only
include the very beginning of that day.

d < new Date('2000/01/11') )

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[Evertjan.]

Evertjan. wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

Randy Webb wrote on 22 nov 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

>var date = new Date(), m = date.getMonth() + 1;
if (m >= 11 || (m == 1 && date.getDate() <= 10)) {

A variation,
[this works EVERY year,
the year 2000 is just for internal use]:

var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');

I knew you would know better about that, John.

To keep the visual date [and missing the last minute]:

==================
var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
if ( d >= new Date('2000/11/1') ||
d <= new Date('2000/1/10 23:59') )
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');
==================

or:

==================
function between(dBegin,mBegin,dEnd,mEnd){
var d = new Date(); d.setYear('2000');
return ( d >= new Date('2000/'+mBegin+'/'+dBegin) ||
d <= new Date('2000/'+mEnd+'/'+dEnd+' 23:59') );
}

if ( between(1,11,10,1) ) // dBegin,mBegin,dEnd,mEnd
alert('Merry Xmass')
else
alert('Bye');
==================

or:

==================
function betweenUS(mBegin,dBegin,mEnd,dEnd){
...........
==================

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Mika]

"Mika" <an**@anon.comwrote in message
news:tg*******************@text.news.blueyonder.co .uk...

Hi all

Is there a small addition we can make to a .js file, so that it will only
be read during certain times of the year and ignored at the others? It's
for a Christmas promo.

We want it to run only from 1 Nov - 10 Jan, any year.

Thanks.

Mika

This was to put snow on our site. For some reason it doesn't work in
Firefox, yet Safari, IE, etc. all work fine.

Can anyone figure out why you don't see snow here on FF only?:
http://tinyurl.com/2s89nv

Thanks.

[Mika]

"Tom" <to*@to.comwrote in message news:fi********@drn.newsguy.com...

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:21:13 GMT, Mika wrote...

>>
"Mika" <an**@anon.comwrote in message
news:tg*******************@text.news.blueyonder. co.uk...

>>Hi all

Is there a small addition we can make to a .js file, so that it will
only
be read during certain times of the year and ignored at the others?
It's
for a Christmas promo.

We want it to run only from 1 Nov - 10 Jan, any year.

Thanks.

Mika

This was to put snow on our site. For some reason it doesn't work in
Firefox, yet Safari, IE, etc. all work fine.

Can anyone figure out why you don't see snow here on FF only?:
http://tinyurl.com/2s89nv

Thanks.

I'm seeing snow fine in FF v2.0.0.9

Maybe you need to use Head & Shoulders shampoo.

....Yep we fixed it thanks, had a rogue 'else' command at the end which broke
it for FF, while IE worked okay.