Dear LC Folks, What is the 'best' way to perform these 2 calculations with LiveCode?
1) Calculate a person's age, given a birthdate: /* Calculates the number of birthdays from a given date, up to and including *today*. @param pBirthDate the birthdate @return a positive integer representing the number of birthdays from pBirthDate to today. */ function currentAge pBirthDate ...? end currentAge 2) Calculate whether an *anniversary* falls within a time frame - ie., within a week, within 2 weeks, within a month of today: /* Determines whether an anniversary date is close to a 'reference date'. @param pAnniversaryDate the anniversary date @param pReferenceDate the date that is supposed to be 'close' - or not - to the anniversary date @pTimeFrame a time period, in seconds, that determines what 'close' is: it can be 1 day, 7 days, 1 month, etc. @return a boolean: if the anniversary date is sufficiently 'close' (as specified by pTimeFrame) to the reference date, then it returns TRUE, otherwise it returns FALSE. */ function isAnniversaryClose pAnniversaryDate, pReferenceDate, pTimeFrame ...? end isAnniversaryClose I'm not being lazy, but the algorithms I came up with look so 'convoluted' that I *know* there must be an easier way. I know that usually in every language there is a 'standard' or 'best-practice' way to perform these standard date calculations, so rather than re-inventing the wheel, I thought I'd run it by you, Masters, and be humbled by your experience! :-) Many thanks in advance, -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
