How do I get the date 30 days from today? - Solved

[DR White]

How do I get the date 30 days from today?

I have looked in the dictionary, but I could not find any info on getting a future date based on today's date.

Any help would be appreciated,

David

[dunbarx]

One of the most fun and powerful keywords in LC is the dateItems. It can do calculations within itself.

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on mouseUp
   convert the date to dateItems
   add 30 to item 3 of it
   convert it to date
   answer it
end mouseUp

So much fun.

Craig

EDIT:

If you just convert the date, the result goes into "it". You could have done this in other ways.
You can go backwards too: "subtract 2000 from item 3 of it"
You can use the dateItems format to do all sorts of things. Who says you can only change the day item? Play around, and read the dictionary entry for this gem.

[DR White]

Craig,

Wow!

That works Great!!

Thanks,

David

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Read my edits. Your thanks can be converted to a half hour of fiddling with this keyword.

Craig

[dunbarx]

New post. I must not be too cavalier about some things.

So you can add 500 to item 1 of the dateItems, but this will not give you a valid result. But what if you convert the long date?

So much fun.

Craig