There's also a jQuery plugin which already does this.
Check out: http://timeago.yarp.com/
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bob O <sngndn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you everyone for the responses
> bjorsq your solution worked out great. Thank you for the help.
>
>
> On Feb 4, 5:39 pm, bjorsq <p...@bjorsq.net> wrote:
>> To do this in JavaScript, you need to extract the text representation of the
>> date you have in the div, parse it, and set up a new JavaScript Date object
>> to compare against the current date/time. If your dates are formatted like
>> [day]/[month]/[year] (I'm in the UK), then this should work (but will need
>> some error checking in it to cope with blank or malformed dates):
>>
>> $(document).ready(function() {
>> var now = new Date();
>> $('td.yui-dt0-col-LastActivity div').each(function() {
>> var divdate = new Date();
>> /* split the text date in the div */
>> var dateparts = $(this).text().split('/');
>> /* set the properties of the Date object
>> *for US format dates [month]/[day]/[year] the array indexes for months
>> and days need switching
>> */
>> divdate.setDate(parseInt(dateparts[0]));
>> /* months are zero indexed! */
>> divdate.setMonth((parseInt(dateparts[1])-1));
>> divdate.setYear(parseInt(dateparts[2]));
>> /* compare dates - 14 days = (14*24*60*60*1000) milliseconds */
>> if (divdate.getTime() > (now.getTime() - (14*24*60*60*1000))) {
>> $(this).addClass('highlight');
>> }
>> });
>>
>>
>>
>> });
>> Bob O-2 wrote:
>>
>> > Can any one point me in the right direction for my issue.
>>
>> > I have a div with a text value pulled in from a database 01/01/2009
>>
>> > Im trying to write a javascript that can take that value and compare
>> > it against new Date();
>>
>> > $(document).ready(function() {
>> > now = new Date();
>> > lastActivityDivs = $('td.yui-dt0-col-LastActivity div');
>> > lastActivityDivs.each(function() {
>> > if ($(this).val() == (now < 14)) {
>> > $(this).addClass('.highlight');
>> > }
>> > });
>> > });
>>
>> > i know this isnt correct, but it gives you an idea of what im trying
>> > to accomplish..
>>
>> > Any help would be great.
>>
>> > Thank you
>>
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