[FX.php List] [OFF] Javascript question--comparing dates

[Fitzgerald, Theodore C]

Bob,

Not sure if you missed my post, so here it is again:


In order to do the greater than and less than comparison you'll need to be working with Date objects, so if getToday() doesn't return a date object, your function won't work correctly.



I'm not sure what "getToday();" is doing, but to get today's date,  you only need to do "new Date()";.  Here is an example of it working:



http://jsfiddle.net/qpvugLna/1/ (warning, it does show the alert when you visit the page)



Ted

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From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
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It is, but it’s just a simple bit of code.

I tried for an hour to get it to work; I tried translating the dates to milliseconds and then doing math comparisons, but I never got it to work. I’m going to work around it by doing it in PHP, but I would have thought that there would be a simple way to do date comparisons in Javascript… oh well.


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On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Ness, David <dness at bondedbuilders.com<mailto:dness at bondedbuilders.com>> wrote:

Bob,

Since getToday() isn't a JavaScript function, I assume it's a custom function?

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