It is assuming the time you are giving it is GMT, so subtract 6 hours from the starting midnight of March 15 gives you March 14, 6:00. I didn't check the code, but this is what it appears to be doing.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM, JMT <[email protected]> wrote: > There must be a simply answer to this but I'm stumped. > Date.convertFromYYYYMMDDHHMM() consistently returns the wrong date to > me, off by one day. So for example in this script > > <script label="Change date format"> > var d = "20110315" > d = Date.convertFromYYYYMMDDHHMM(d) > alert(d) > </script> > > the alert says "Mon Mar 14 2011 18:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight > Time)," while it should be (I think) March 15. > > I'm trying to get this sorted out so that I can add a custom date > field to my tiddlers and have the correct date displayed when I view > the tiddler. > > Thanks in advance to you tiddlywiki gurus! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
