Leston Drake wrote:
> I would like to compare the current date to some future date, say 12/31/34.
>
> But MetaCard evaluates the following
> the date < 12/31/34
> as False...?
>
> It doesn't seem to be doing a strict string compare, because it evaluates
> "10/1/01" < "12/31/34"
> as True (which you would expect with a string comparison).
>
> Can anyone explain how it is evaluating "the date < 12/31/34"?
>
> Is there some other way to compare 2 dates?
Convert them to integers using the seconds format:
function isLater pBaseDate, pCompareDate
convert pBaseDate to seconds
convert pCompareDate to seconds
return (pCompareDate > pBaseDate)
end isLater
MC's internal date routines only cover the period from 1/1/1935 to 1/1/2034;
to handle a larger set of dates, use the Julian2Date and Date2Julain
functions posted here recently.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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