[jQuery] Re: Dealing with Date Comparison

2009-02-05 Thread Bob O
Thank you everyone for the responses bjorsq your solution worked out great. Thank you for the help. On Feb 4, 5:39 pm, bjorsq p...@bjorsq.net wrote: To do this in JavaScript, you need to extract the text representation of the date you have in the div, parse it, and set up a new JavaScript

[jQuery] Re: Dealing with Date Comparison

2009-02-05 Thread Patrick Jarrett
There's also a jQuery plugin which already does this. Check out: http://timeago.yarp.com/ On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bob O sngndn...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you everyone for the responses bjorsq your solution worked out great. Thank you for the help. On Feb 4, 5:39 pm, bjorsq

[jQuery] Re: Dealing with Date Comparison

2009-02-04 Thread Cam Spiers
Sorry if this isn't any help but why don't you do it on the server side? On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Bob O sngndn...@gmail.com wrote: Can any one point me in the right direction for my issue. I have a div with a text value pulled in from a database 01/01/2009 Im trying to write a

[jQuery] Re: Dealing with Date Comparison

2009-02-04 Thread James
I agree with Cam Spiers that it's better to do it server-side. Create the format for the date that's easy to compare with in Javascript, and just stick it in a hidden input field. On Feb 4, 12:39 pm, Bob O sngndn...@gmail.com wrote: Can any one point me in the right direction for my issue. I

[jQuery] Re: Dealing with Date Comparison

2009-02-04 Thread bjorsq
To do this in JavaScript, you need to extract the text representation of the date you have in the div, parse it, and set up a new JavaScript Date object to compare against the current date/time. If your dates are formatted like [day]/[month]/[year] (I'm in the UK), then this should work (but