Theory of Operation
You’re using Flex 3 and want to compare two dates. The format of the dates is string something like “2009 May 05″. The question is …
What’s the best way to compare them
Well if you’ve the dates as strings and you can easily conver them to something like unix timestamps. If they are a Date object you can try lik so:
date1 = new Date(’2009′);
date2 = new Date(’1990′);
if (date1.setTime() < date2.setTime())
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To compare dates use the ObjectUtil class.
import mx.utils.ObjectUtil;
import mx.controls.Alert;
public var test1:Date = new Date(7/26/09);
public var test2:Date = new Date(7/21/08);
function compareDates(date1:Date, date2:Date):void{
if(ObjectUtil.dateCompare(date1, date2) > -1){
Alert.show(date2 + ” is before ” + date1);
} else if (ObjectUtil.dateCompare(date1, date2) = 0){
Alert.show(date1 + ” ” + date2 + ” are equal”);
} else{
Alert.show(date1 + ” is before ” + date2);
}
}
compareDates(test1, test2);
//the dateCompare method returns 1 if date1 is before //date2 or date 1 is null, 0 if both values are null or //equal, -1 if date2 is before date1 or date2 is null
I forgot to put public in front of the function so it should say:
….
public function compareDates(date1:Date, date2:Date):void{
….
I always mess up code
. The first if statement should be with the comparison changed and likewise the 2nd one:
…
if(ObjectUtil.dateCompare(date1, date2) == -1){
…
else if (ObjectUtil.dateCompare(date1, date2) == 0){
…
i am new for flex ,can u help me?
i want to find the number of dates from one date to another except saturday and sunday(ex:number of dates is 7 means ,today is starting date(11/30/2009) the end date should be 12/8/2009 (exclude sundays and saturday)
Hi,
I’m not sure you can achieve this with some built in functionality of Flex. You’d better make a method to do that. It should check for weekends and exclude them, so when you pass two dates it can check the number of week days.
greetings,
stoimen
I’m not sure I manage this work. Can help please?
@onir – It’s working man
Hi,
i have a problem face from last day.
The problem is that i want to run a countdown Timer. The timer is start from two dates
1. current date (as New Date()).
2. the immediate Monday (as new Date(“Mon Jan 17 2011″))
The problem is with 2nd date.
How i dynamically find the next Monday date ?.
Thanks and welcome for Help.
i am new in flex..can u help me… how to compare two dates… i written function in to date of date field….anyone can suggest for my problem
if( date1.toString() == date2.toString() ) { } to test equality. Use any other operators to make different comparisons
Very nice!