Getting the future date

[Jellobus]

Hi,

How can I get the future date?

Let's say today is Aug 30. What date can it be after 24 hours/86400sec?

It can be Aug 31 or Sep 1st. Is there a way to get the correct future date?

I tried "convert the second+86400 to the date," but it did not work. Please advice.

Thanks for your time!

Louis

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Read up in the dictionary about the "dateItems". This little gadget has it all. For your question, you would "convert" a dateItem string to whatever you want to into, say, the long date.(pseudo)

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get the long date
convert it to dateitems
add someValueOrOtherToOneOfTheItemsInThedateItemsString
convert it from dateItems to long date and long time

Other ways, if you only want the current date after 86400 seconds, is something like:

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on mouseup
   get the seconds
   add 86400 to it
   convert it to long date
   answer it
end mouseup

There are a lot of ways to do this in LC.

Craig

[dunbarx]

If you want a silly ride concerning dates, check out;
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... ng#p138530

Craig

[stam]

I'd go with Craig's suggestion of using dateItems, very useful for this... worth looking it up in the dictionary and searching online for examples

A list in dateItems format can have values beyond the expected range for any given item (e.g. a day of the month of less than 1 or greater than the number of days in that month) without causing issues when converting it again later, outputting a date adjusted for such an irregularity. For example, the date 4 weeks from today can be determined by adding 28 to the third item (i.e. the day of the month) and then re-converting.

[Jellobus]

It helps Thank you!

[dunbarx]

Stam, et. al.

An even nicer thing about dateItems is that one can do anything one feels like with it:

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on mouseUp
   get the date
   convert it to dateItems
   add 2000 to item 3 of it -- add 2000 days to item 3, the day number 
   convert it to long date
   answer it
end mouseUp

You get a date near the end of the decade. DateItems cares nothing about its contents being a legitimate date. It only holds the math and does the math.

Craig