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

[Bob Patin]

I also tried this:

date2 = new Date(2014,12,4);

But that doesn’t work either.

> On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I did see it, and I tried that as well; I tried changing the dates to milliseconds, thinking that would allow me to do comparisons, since I read somewhere that you can’t use == to compare 2 dates.
> 
> Just now, thinking I’d waste yet more time on it, I tried this:
> 
> var date1 = new Date();
> var date2 = new Date("12/04/2014");
> var res = compareDates(date1,date2);
> alert(res);
> 
> and the compareDates function is this:
> 
> function compareDates(date1, date2){
> 	
> 	date1 = date1.getMilliseconds();
> 	date2 = date2.getMilliseconds();
> 	alert (date1 + “---" + date2);
> 
> 	if (date1 < date2){
> 		return 0;
> 	}else if (date1 == date2){
> 		return 1;
> 	}else if (date1 > date2){
> 		return 2;
> 	}else{
> 		return "UNSOLVED";
> 	}
> }
> 
> When I run it, the alert gives me a value for date1 but not for date2.
> 
> Why am I not getting a value from date2? Can I not use the format that I’m using in the call to the function?
> 
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>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Fitzgerald, Theodore C <ted-fitzgerald at uiowa.edu <mailto:ted-fitzgerald at uiowa.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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/ <http://jsfiddle.net/qpvugLna/1/> (warning, it does show the alert when you visit the page)
>>  
> 

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