Problems with cookies, dates, and strings (together)

marct · Sep 12, 2000

Hi,

I need to get a string from a cookie that is a date, add an hour to it, and put it back in the cookie. I seem to be having a problem getting the string in the cookie converted to a date so I can add an hour. VBScript has a CDate function that will do this, but I can't find an equivalent for javascript. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,

Marc Tower [sig][/sig]

RobSchultz · Sep 12, 2000

Marc,

Try this...

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
var strDate = &quot;Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:44:00&quot;; //this would be the cookie date variable
intMSinHour = 3600000; //milliseconds in hour

document.write(&quot;Original String =&quot; + strDate + &quot;<br>&quot;);

intMSDate = Date.parse(strDate); //convert date to number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970

intTotal = intMSinHour + intMSDate; 

objNewDate = new Date(intTotal);
var strNewDate = objNewDate.toString();

document.write(&quot;New String =&quot; + strNewDate);
</script>
</head>
</html>

You will, of course, have to format the date/time to make it the same on the in and the out but the script does indeed add an hour.

Rob [sig][/sig]

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Problems with cookies, dates, and strings (together)

marct

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