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Ok I know

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var date = new Date();
var d = date.getDate();
var day = (d < 10) ? '0' + d : d;
var m = date.getMonth() + 1;
var month = (m < 10) ? '0' + m : m;
var yy = date.getYear();
var year = (yy < 1000) ? yy + 1900 : yy;

document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year);
//--></script>


Will give me a readout of month/day/year like this "12/30/2001"
but what would I do if I wanted "12.30.01" ??

I know I change document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year);
to . . . . . . . . . . .document.write(month + "." + day + "." + year);

To get a [.] instead of a [/], but how do I change 2001 to 01

I mean what do I change in var year = (yy < 1000) ? yy + 1900 : yy; to get that?



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[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 12-30-2001).]

i dont know the exact syntax, but you can always use the substring function to get certain characters of a string.

I'm sure there is a simple way to do it "the right way", but why not do like this:
var year = 02;
it only changes once a year, you know. You have a whole year to find out "the right way" now!






[This message has been edited by StereoType (edited 12-30-2001).]

You could also subtract 2000 from the date.

Best bet would be to substring the date. Treat it as a string makes it easier to manipulate.

var yy = date.getYear();
yy = (yy < 1000) ? yy + 1900 : yy; // this line shouldn't be necessary for any correct implementation of the Date object, i don't know why they put it there
var year = yy.substr(yy.length-2);

I can't seem to get it to work right......

If I replace var year = (yy < 1000) ? yy + 1900 : yy;

with...

var year = yy.substr(yy.length-2);

the script has an error stating

quote:

---

"This Object doesn't support this property or method."

---

I am probally not using the substring right or something.



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[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 12-30-2001).]

Well for now I am going to put var year = '02'; ,but I would still like to get year part of the script working.

allmost forget to put the ' ' in 02, heh

Don't *replace* the second line. Just use the full three lines of code I showed you.

Try changing the third one to

var year = (yy+"").substr((yy+"").length-2);

to remove the error. I'm not sure exactly what went wrong, but this should fix it.

hey that last one worked like a charm!

Thanks Slime =)


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About using "date.getYear()"...you may want to read this

Later,
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Thanks bud, that was really helpful =)

Sweet when 2002 hit the script change it perfectly slime!!!! Today's date is pretty wierd thought 1.01.02 just sounds and looks wierd, heh


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