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Formatting dates
- Thread starter tm22
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I'll post you a prototype that will do that for you, it's sexy.
*Note: you have to parse the value as a Date before you can use this prototype method.
To call this all you need to do is:
//get a date object
var now = new Date();
//call it
now.toJSDate();
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*Note: you have to parse the value as a Date before you can use this prototype method.
To call this all you need to do is:
//get a date object
var now = new Date();
//call it
now.toJSDate();
Code:
Date.prototype.toJSDate = function() {return ((this.getMonth() + 1 < 10) ? "0" + (this.getMonth() + 1) : (this.getMonth() + 1)) + "/" + ((this.getDate() < 10) ? "0" + this.getDate() : this.getDate()) + "/" + this.getFullYear() ;};- Thread starter
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trollacious
Programmer
Use 3 dropdown lists for dates: one for month, one for day, one for year. Then put the date together in whatever format you wish from that when the form is submitted. The more you allow users to input text for something like this, the more error checking you'll have to do. It's not difficult to adjust the day of the month dropdown list for the different maximum days of the month, either.
Lee
Lee
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tm22, did you try monksnake's solution - it works fine for me:
That's a pretty sweet javascript date formatter prototype method monksnake, where'd you get that code? The guy that wrote that must be a genius.
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Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">
Date.prototype.toJSDate = function() {return ((this.getMonth() + 1 < 10) ? "0" + (this.getMonth() + 1) : (this.getMonth() + 1)) + "/" + ((this.getDate() < 10) ? "0" + this.getDate() : this.getDate()) + "/" + String(this.getFullYear()).substr(2, 2) ;};
function convertDate(obj) {
var dte = new Date(obj.value);
obj.value = dte.toJSDate();
}
</script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="txt" />
<input type="button" value="convert date" onclick="convertDate(document.getElementById('txt'))" />
</body>
</html>That's a pretty sweet javascript date formatter prototype method monksnake, where'd you get that code? The guy that wrote that must be a genius.
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