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Formating dates

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craigward

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Hi,

Yesterday I was helped with a date function to get the results I needed, see below. My problem now is formatting the dates in to this format dd/mm/yyy. I have tried everything I could find on the internet but everything I used cam back with errors.

Could some show me the way to structure the dateformat() function to get the date formatted like dd/mm/yyyy.

Thanks in advance.

Code: 
var d=new Date()

d.setDate(d.getDate()+9)
alert(d.toString()) //shows today's date plus 9 days
 
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Here is a html page example and the alert(dateFormat(d, "dd/mm/yyyy")) does not work and give an object expected error.

Code: 
<html>

<head>
<script>

var d=new Date()

dateFormat(d, "dd/mm/yyyy");



function datform(){

d.setDate(d.getDate()+9)

alert(dateFormat(d, "dd/mm/yyyy")) // THIS GIVES AN ERROR OF OBJACT EXPECTED

alert(d.toString())


}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="datform()">



</body>

</html>
 
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Hi

With that effort you can name your function for example craigward_wants_format(). While neither dateFormat() nor craigward_wants_format() is defined, you will get the same error.

Feherke.
 
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Sorry, i am not understanding this. If you take out this from the code the function works fine. What i am asking i thinkisa simple date function that can be applied.


alert(dateFormat(d, "dd/mm/yyyy")) // THIS GIVES AN ERROR OF OBJACT EXPECTED
 
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I don't think "dateFormat" is a proper javascript function. Have you defined that function elsewhere?

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Bob Rashkin
 
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No i have not defined that function anywhere, i thought it was built in.
 
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Thanks for that, i am playing with it but can't get it working yet. I'm not great with javascript. Will post back once i have played some more.
 
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