On 10/27/06 5:52 AM, "Mark Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a user-specified date. I want to convert it to seconds and > factor in 86400 to establish the range of seconds for that date, so that > I can compare a file's creation date to determine whether that file was > created on that specified day. The problem is I am not sure what is > used as the starting point for a date's seconds counter. At 6:42 this > morning, I ran this: > > put the short date into theDate > convert theDate to seconds > put ((the seconds - theDate) / 3600) > > and got 4.710556, which suggests that a date starts at 1:00 AM and not > midnight. Is this accurate? And more importantly, is this the way the > computation would be handled on any client machine anywhere? > Try this. put the short date into theDate convert theDate to dateItems put dateItems I get 2006,10,27,2,0,0,6 which means 2:00:00 AM on Saturday, Oct 27, 2006 Jim Ault Las Vegas _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
