Thanks everyone. I figured the dob problem out and it's now working. Now I just need to get my substack back. Have there been stability problems with substacks?
Mike On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:32:02 -0400, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Warren Samples wrote: > >> On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:16:44 PM Roger Eller wrote: >> >>> convert tToday to seconds convert tBorn to seconds >> It's been talked about before, but this calls for a reminder: attempting to convert a date prior to Jan 1, 1970 to "seconds" returns "invalid date" instead of a number in Windows. Don't do this if you are going to need this to work in Windows! Under Windows, you need to subtract the birthyear from the current year and determine if the current month/day is later than the birth month/day and subtract one year if necessary. Conveniently, this methods does work on all platforms. > > function doAge tDOB > -- assumes format of m/d/yy > set the itemdelimiter to "/" > put item 3 of tDOB into DOByr > put item 2 of tDOB into DOBmo > put item 1 of tDOB into DOBdy > put item 3 of the short date into nowYr > put item 2 of the short date into nowMo > put item 1 of the short date into nowDy > if DOByr > nowYr then -- prev century > -- assumes no one with age > 100 > put "19" before DOByr > else > put "20" before DOByr > end if > put "20" before nowYr > put nowYr - DOByr into tAge > if nowMo > DOBmo then return tAge > if nowMo < DOBmo then return tAge -1 > if nowDy < DOBdy then return tAge -1 > return tAge > end doAge > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com [1] > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig [2] > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [3] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [4] Links: ------ [1] mailto:pmb...@gmail.com [2] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig [3] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [4] 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