Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I understand that. I would also like to lobby for changes to Date. Maybe I should just write my own library that expects the date to be a floating point number of days (like Delphi and others). As it stands, this illustrates the big problem with the date class:
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
The first two buttons don't work as expected. That is, if you expect to fully take advantage of Flex's great databinding technology. Instead, everywhere you simply want to increment/decrement/change the date, you have to jump through hoops to create a new date or write invalidation calls whenever you change it. Or you do silly things like the second two buttons. This is unavoidable for my complex objects, but dates should be as simple to use as ints and strings.
Frankly, I feel like I'm going back in time when I work with Date. Flex has spoiled me :DOn 6/23/06, Gordon Smith <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy
man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY!
I heard it. But we didn't design the Date
class; it's part of the existing _javascript_/Ecmascript standards that we've followed
in ActionScirpt 3.
- Gordon
From:
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flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:02
AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]
Difference between two dates
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by
a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel
Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using .day instead
of .date
TFI Friday! =)
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[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny
Sent: 23 June 2006 15:33
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I need more
coffee
The following code (which
I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone
spot my error?
public static function
getMonths(startDate:Date, endDate:Date):Number
{
if (startDate > endDate)
{
var tmp:Date = endDate;
endDate = startDate;
startDate = tmp;
}
var numMonths:Number = 0;
// Get number of months in years
numMonths += (endDate.fullYear - startDate.fullYear) * 12
numMonths += endDate.month - startDate.month;
numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day) / 30; // This
needs fixing
return numMonths;
}
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I tried that, and it just didn't work. Returned completely
wrong numbers! I tried stepping through it, but didn't really understand all the
magic numbers (like subtracing 1 from the month if one date is lower than the
other).
I got it working with the code I posted, it's just annoying
that we have to implement something so trivial (so there'll be tons of different
buggy implementations doing the rounds soon!)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas
KnudsenSent: 26 June 2006 19:56To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
http://jeff.mxdj.com/datediff_for_actionscript.htmperhaps
this would be helpful.DK
On 6/26/06, Kelly
Birr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
If you do not wish to
change the Date class so it will conform to a (terrible) standard, I can sort
of understand that.
Would you please
consider the possibility of adding a DateTime or Date2 class in Flex 2.1 that
works like a primitive type. Or better yet, make the new class
be Date and the standards-compliant one called EcmaDate or EDate or CDate
or something like that. :)
-
Kelly
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
Tuppeny
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:03
AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two
dates
> Since the Date class
is specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change
it
That's fair enough,
but as things are (without a utility class to do this stuff), I can see there
being a whole bunch of "buggy" implementations of date stuff in Flex over the
coming months, which will be spread amongst developers via sites like
CodeProject!! :-(
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon
SmithSent: 24 June 2006 00:01To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE:
[flexcoders] Difference between two dates
Since the Date class
is specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change it. But
it sounds like we should consider adding a flex.utils.DateUtils class in the
future to make date manipulation easier.
-
Gordon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Pan TroglodytesSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:53
AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: 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 dayday - day in month
(used to be called date)month - 1 based like day (what used to be called
date) ishour/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.
On
6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wouldn't
disagree!
There seems to be no
useful functions for manipulating dates. They should copy all the methods and
properties from the .NET DateTime class :o)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I swear, I really
think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? -
CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06,
Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using .day
instead of .date
TFI Friday!
=)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Daniel TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I need more
coffee
The following code
(which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around
3.2. Anyone spot my error?
public static
function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
num
RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
Yes thank you, this is helpful. I did already have some routines built to do this but this one is a bit better. Never-the-less I still believe the language would be improved by making a Date primitive. Just because we have workarounds does not mean we should settle for them. The fact still remains that this requires extra code, especially if your trying to do a comparison between 2 variables whose actual types you don't know (or care) and just want to know if they are equivalent or not. I understand that it's way too late in the Flex 2.0 game for any of this, but here's hoping for Flex 2.1 - Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas KnudsenSent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:56 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates http://jeff.mxdj.com/datediff_for_actionscript.htmperhaps this would be helpful.DK On 6/26/06, Kelly Birr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you do not wish to change the Date class so it will conform to a (terrible) standard, I can sort of understand that. Would you please consider the possibility of adding a DateTime or Date2 class in Flex 2.1 that works like a primitive type. Or better yet, make the new class be Date and the standards-compliant one called EcmaDate or EDate or CDate or something like that. :) - Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:03 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates > Since the Date class is specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change it That's fair enough, but as things are (without a utility class to do this stuff), I can see there being a whole bunch of "buggy" implementations of date stuff in Flex over the coming months, which will be spread amongst developers via sites like CodeProject!! :-( From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon SmithSent: 24 June 2006 00:01To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates Since the Date class is specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change it. But it sounds like we should consider adding a flex.utils.DateUtils class in the future to make date manipulation easier. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:53 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: 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 dayday - day in month (used to be called date)month - 1 based like day (what used to be called date) ishour/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. On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wouldn't disagree! There seems to be no useful functions for manipulating dates. They should copy all the methods and properties from the .NET DateTime class :o) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was using .day instead of .date TFI Friday! =) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates I think I need more coffee The following code (which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my error? pu
Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
http://jeff.mxdj.com/datediff_for_actionscript.htmperhaps this would be helpful.DKOn 6/26/06,
Kelly Birr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you do not wish to change the Date class so it will conform to a
(terrible) standard, I can sort of understand
that.
Would you please consider the possibility of adding a DateTime or Date2
class in Flex 2.1 that works like a primitive type. Or better yet, make
the new class be Date and the standards-compliant one called EcmaDate or
EDate or CDate or something like that. :)
- Kelly
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
TuppenySent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:03 AMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
> Since the Date class is
specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change
it
That's fair enough, but
as things are (without a utility class to do this stuff), I can see there being
a whole bunch of "buggy" implementations of date stuff in Flex over the coming
months, which will be spread amongst developers via sites like
CodeProject!! :-(
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon
SmithSent: 24 June 2006 00:01To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
Since the Date class is
specified by the EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change it. But it
sounds like we should consider adding a flex.utils.DateUtils class in the future
to make date manipulation easier.
-
Gordon
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:53
AMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: 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 dayday - day in month (used
to be called date)month - 1 based like day (what used to be called date)
ishour/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.
On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I wouldn't
disagree!
There
seems to be no useful functions for manipulating dates. They should copy all the
methods and properties from the .NET DateTime class
:o)
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I
swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear
that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was
using .day instead of .date
TFI
Friday! =)
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Daniel TuppenySent:
23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I
need more coffee
The
following code (which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm
expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my error?
public
static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day)
/ 30; // This needs fixing return
numMonths; }
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
> I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy
man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY!
I heard it. But we didn't design the Date
class; it's part of the existing _javascript_/Ecmascript standards that we've followed
in ActionScirpt 3.
- Gordon
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:02
AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]
Difference between two dates
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by
a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel
Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using .day instead
of .date
TFI Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny
Sent: 23 June 2006 15:33
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I need more
coffee
The following code (which
I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone
spot my error?
public static function
getMonths(startDate:Date, endDate:Date):Number
{
if (startDate > endDate)
{
var tmp:Date = endDate;
endDate = startDate;
startDate = tmp;
}
var numMonths:Number = 0;
// Get number of months in years
numMonths += (endDate.fullYear - startDate.fullYear) * 12
numMonths += endDate.month - startDate.month;
numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day) / 30; // This
needs fixing
return numMonths;
}
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
Since the Date class is specified by the
EcmaScript-262 standard, we're not going to change it. But it sounds like we
should consider adding a flex.utils.DateUtils class in the future to make date
manipulation easier.
- Gordon
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:53
AM
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.
On 6/23/06, Daniel
Tuppeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I wouldn't disagree!
There seems to be no
useful functions for manipulating dates. They should copy all the methods and
properties from the .NET DateTime class :o)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes
Sent: 23 June 2006 16:02
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]
Difference between two dates
I swear, I really
think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? -
CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using .day instead
of .date
TFI Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
Tuppeny
Sent: 23 June 2006 15:33
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders]
Difference between two dates
I think I need more
coffee
The following code (which
I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone
spot my error?
public static function
getMonths(startDate:Date, endDate:Date):Number
{
if (startDate > endDate)
{
var tmp:Date = endDate;
endDate = startDate;
startDate = tmp;
}
var numMonths:Number = 0;
// Get number of months in years
numMonths += (endDate.fullYear - startDate.fullYear) * 12
numMonths += endDate.month - startDate.month;
numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day) / 30; // This
needs fixing
return numMonths;
}
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
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. __,_._,___
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 TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:53To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: 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 dayday - day in month (used to be called date)month - 1 based like day (what used to be called date) ishour/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. __,_._,___
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 dayday - 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.On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wouldn't disagree!
There seems to be no useful functions for manipulating
dates. They should copy all the methods and properties from the .NET DateTime
class :o)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan
TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy
man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel
Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was
using .day instead of .date
TFI
Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject:
RE:
[flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I think I
need more coffee
The
following code (which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm
expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my error?
public
static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day -
startDate.day) / 30; // This needs
fixing return
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I wouldn't disagree!
There seems to be no useful functions for manipulating
dates. They should copy all the methods and properties from the .NET DateTime
class :o)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan
TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy
man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D
On 6/23/06, Daniel
Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was
using .day instead of .date
TFI
Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE:
[flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I think I
need more coffee
The
following code (which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm
expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my error?
public
static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day -
startDate.day) / 30; // This needs
fixing return
numMonths; }__This
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Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :DOn 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using .day instead of .date
TFI Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I need more coffee
The following code (which I'm sure is correct!),
returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my
error?
public static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day)
/ 30; // This needs fixing return
numMonths; }__This
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I was using .day instead of .date
TFI Friday! =)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel
TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference
between two dates
I think I need more coffee
The following code (which I'm sure is correct!),
returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my
error?
public static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day)
/ 30; // This needs fixing return
numMonths; }__This
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RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates
I think I need more coffee
The following code (which I'm sure is correct!),
returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my
error?
public static function getMonths(startDate:Date,
endDate:Date):Number { if (startDate >
endDate) {var tmp:Date =
endDate;endDate =
startDate;startDate =
tmp; } var
numMonths:Number = 0; // Get number
of months in years numMonths += (endDate.fullYear -
startDate.fullYear) * 12 numMonths += endDate.month -
startDate.month; numMonths += (endDate.day - startDate.day)
/ 30; // This needs fixing return
numMonths; }
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