I purchased Infowallet, (it's awesome) and so feel it's alright to scavenge your bit of code. :-)
Bob On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > The problem is the epoch date in Windows is 1970 and LiveCode can't deal with > dates earlier than that in Windows. You will need to use a VBScript. > > Here is what I use in InfoWallet which handles Windows, Mac, and Linux > correctly which was based on code provided by folks on this list. > > on calcAge tDate,asOf > -- returns the current age based on a DOB of tDate > -- as of the date asOf, or if asOf = empty, as of today > if tDate = empty then return empty > if the platform is "WIn32" then > isADate tDate > if the result then > put "sdate = " & quote & tDate & quote into vFive > put return & "result = DateDiff(" & quote & "d" & quote & > ",sdate,Date)" after vFive > put return & "trueage = result / 365" after vFive > put return & "result = Left(trueage,2)" after vFive > do vFive as vbscript > return the result > else > return empty > end if > else > if tDate is not a date then return empty > if asOf = empty then > put the date into asOf > end if > set the itemdelimiter to "/" > put item -1 of the short date into nowYr > set the centurycutoff to nowYr+1 > set the itemdelimiter to comma > convert tDate to dateItems > convert asOf to dateitems > put item 1 of asOf - item 1 of tDate - 1 into tAge > put item 1 of asOf into item 1 of tDate > convert tDate to seconds > convert asOf to seconds > if tDate <= asOf then add 1 to tAge > return tAge > end if > end calcAge > > > Bill Vlahos > _________________ > InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life > information with you, accessible, and secure. > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:23 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > >> Bonjour, >> >> I am a Mac user but I recently bought a PC (windows 7) in order to test my >> standalones for windows more quickly. >> >> I am fighting for hours now with the following problem : >> >> In an app., I have a handler that calculates the age from the short birth >> date (thanks to Jim Ault who gave it on the list). >> The birth date is jj/mm/AAAA or jj/mm/AA as well. >> >> This handler works fine on Mac, but not on windows. >> >> On windows, the age is invariably 100 if the birth year < 1970. (with >> JJ/MM/AA or JJ/MM/AAAA (as bad ;-( >> If the birth year > = 1970 then the age is correct. >> >> I tried to play with the centuryCutOff but without any success (on windows). >> >> I am not familiar with Windows : what am I missing ? Is it a matter of >> computer setting or should I program differently for windows than for mac !? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance for any help >> >> Best regards from Grenoble >> >> André >> >> P.S. By the way, I used to use a search engine (if I well remember, it was >> in the help menu of livecode) I do not find it any more; has it been >> suppressed ? (or here again, I am missing something !) >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode