RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

[Tracy Spratt]

Have you looked into the AS 3 libraries?  I found this on dates manipulation: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/as_libraries/docs/corelib/ Look at DateUtil Tracy   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:01 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates   > things like date.date += 12   I didn't know that. That's certainly a bit better! I was frustrated there was no AddDays() etc.!     > Yes, yes, I know you can do the getTime() arithmetic   You can't. Because once you detach the length of time from the actual dates, you can't figure out the number of months accurately (because of the difference in days). I originally did GetTime of both dates, and then created a date from the difference (and took away 1970 years), but the length was then out by a number of days! :-(     > If I were redesigning it, it wold at least ook like this: I agree - it was the day/date that had me spending an hour to do simple maths!     >year - why fullYear?   This got me too... .year appears in the intellisense, but when I used it, I got an error - WTF?! It wouldn't be so bad if they'd actually added a 2-figure year, but they dumped .year, and added fullYear. Grrr!   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: 23 June 2006 16:53 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates Well, it helped when I figured out I could do things like date.date += 12 and it would automatically correct for rolling over months/years.  But at the very least, there needs to be a built-in daysBetween function.  Yes, yes, I know you can do the getTime() arithmetic.  But every time you have to fall back to that, it feels kludgy. If I were redesigning it, it wold at least ook like this: dayOfWeek - what used to be called day day - day in month (used to be called date) month - 1 based like day (what used to be called date) is hour/minute/second/millisecond - singular (if hour is plural, why not "months"?) year - why fullYear?  I mean, c'mon, do people really expect something called "year" to be two digits or what? daysBetween(laterDate:date) - laterDate minus this in days But, alas, it's too late.  There's no way they'll make the change at this late day. I mean "date". Haha. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___