Re: calendar function anyone ?
Hi all, Thanks for your reply. Converting the date to dateItems actually crossed my mind, but are you sure the convert function is 100% bug free ? AFAIR, last time I used it in a cgi script, there was a 60 min difference in some conversions (unfortunately I don't remember in which cases, but I remember that this bug lead to a few threads on this list) and finally choosed to make all date conversions with mySQL instead... Best, JB Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? If you convert a date to dateItems, it becomes a comma-delimited list of 7 items. The last one is a number indicating the day of the week. Then you can use the system weekDayNames to find the day name that matches that number. e.g. put 12/5/2025 into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put the last item of tDate into tDayNum put line tDayNum of the system weekdayNames into tDayName Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
I also notice a difference of 60 min only at a few dates (Mac OS X). I have found that it happens when changing from winter date to summer date (in France) The foreign system dates seems not to be well managed by revolution Jean-Marc Le 14 févr. 2007, à 11:43, jbv a écrit : Hi all, Thanks for your reply. Converting the date to dateItems actually crossed my mind, but are you sure the convert function is 100% bug free ? AFAIR, last time I used it in a cgi script, there was a 60 min difference in some conversions (unfortunately I don't remember in which cases, but I remember that this bug lead to a few threads on this list) and finally choosed to make all date conversions with mySQL instead... Best, JB Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? If you convert a date to dateItems, it becomes a comma-delimited list of 7 items. The last one is a number indicating the day of the week. Then you can use the system weekDayNames to find the day name that matches that number. e.g. put 12/5/2025 into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put the last item of tDate into tDayNum put line tDayNum of the system weekdayNames into tDayName Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
When you are working with dates only, the dateItems will usually show the hour as 2 am, but sometimes as 1 am depending on daylight savings. To avoid any potential cross-overs, when working with dates alone, I tend to supply a default time of midday. The convert command will not mess this up by supplying it's own default and since it is in the middle of the day, I know the date will be correct. Re-writing my suggested function allowing for this: function weekDay pDate put pDate 12:00 pm into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put the last item of tDate into tDayNum put line tDayNum of the system weekdayNames into tDayName return tDayName end weekDay I think you will find this completely reliable. As an aside on the convert command: I have issues with the way convert automatically applies the current time zone when converting seconds so that a specific number of seconds refers to a moment in time and not to a set date time. This makes the seconds useless to me as a data storage transfer device since the conversions will vary from machine to machine depending on time zones etc. I now store all time stamps in a 14 digit number MMDDHHMMSS. However once I have this data, date time calculations can be done locally with the convert command only being used to produce temporary variables, not long-term data storage. Cheers, Sarah Thanks for your reply. Converting the date to dateItems actually crossed my mind, but are you sure the convert function is 100% bug free ? AFAIR, last time I used it in a cgi script, there was a 60 min difference in some conversions (unfortunately I don't remember in which cases, but I remember that this bug lead to a few threads on this list) and finally choosed to make all date conversions with mySQL instead... Best, JB Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? If you convert a date to dateItems, it becomes a comma-delimited list of 7 items. The last one is a number indicating the day of the week. Then you can use the system weekDayNames to find the day name that matches that number. e.g. put 12/5/2025 into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put the last item of tDate into tDayNum put line tDayNum of the system weekdayNames into tDayName Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
calendar function anyone ?
Hi all, Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? Thanks, JB ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
JB you can try something like this... for example, in the message box: convert 1918,9,18,0,0,0,0 from dateItems to dateItems put it This returns: 1918,9,18,1,0,0,4 Note how it fixes the day of the week in the date items to 4 (Wednesday) Alternatively you can specify the output as something like this: convert 1918,9,18,0,0,0,0 from dateItems to long date put it This returns: Wednesday, September 18, 1918 But be sure and read the note for convert because I think there are some limitations if you are running on Windows. --gordy On Feb 13, 2007, at 14:44, jbv wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? Thanks, JB ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? If you convert a date to dateItems, it becomes a comma-delimited list of 7 items. The last one is a number indicating the day of the week. Then you can use the system weekDayNames to find the day name that matches that number. e.g. put 12/5/2025 into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put the last item of tDate into tDayNum put line tDayNum of the system weekdayNames into tDayName Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
jbv wrote: Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? function GetWeekday pDate set the centurycutoff to (char -2 to -1 of pDate)-1 convert pDate to dateitems return line (last item of pDate) of the weekdayNames end GetWeekday To get the day in the user's local language change the last line to: return line (last item of pDate) of the system weekdayNames -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: calendar function anyone ?
the weekdayNames ?? Good one, have to remember that :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
