Calculating with Dates

Klaus Rosmanitz · **Posted:** March 12th, 2006, 9:18 am

Hi !

Is there any way that I can subtract two dates in Opus using scripting. For example, I'd like to know how many seconds (or hours, days, etc..) have passed since January 1, 2000. I know that there are comprehensive date functions in Opus , but I'm not good at scripting

So, all you wizards out there - this must be a piece of cake for you

. Can you help me out on this one :?:

Greetings from Austria ,

Klaus Rosmanitz · **Posted:** March 12th, 2006, 11:59 am

I've managed the scripting using the getTime() function. Now I've got another problem .

The result I receive is like this : 6.50318e+009 . How can I turn that into a string so that I can extract substrings, for example, the first three digits, the next three digits etc..

andrewq · **Posted:** March 12th, 2006, 1:11 pm

I use something similar for the courses I produce. I can't recall how I arrived at this code snippet, but the following works well for me and compares today's date and time with a fixed date:

Code:

var CourseEndDate = new Date(2005,6,30,0,0) // months are 0 to 11
var Today = new Date() 
var x = CourseEndDate.getTime() 
var y = Today.getTime() 
var z = (x - y)/86400000 
DaysLeft = Math.floor(z) 

Andrew

Klaus Rosmanitz · **Posted:** March 12th, 2006, 9:27 pm

Thanks Andrew !

I tried out your script. Work's great and is shorter than the code I thought up.

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