date and shared objects

[sintech]

looking to find a good action script involving a shared object that holds the date after a button is clicked. This I can do just fine, but what I am looking for is a good way for the next time the movie is viewed to be able to determine the length of time that has expired since the button was last clicked and the current time. I DO know how to use the date object just having trouble trying to word correctly , in my head , the action script that would be needed(the math portion of it anyways). I guess I need some sort of if/then statement that would be like" if days elapsed > 3 and hours elapsed < 23 and seconds elapsed < 59 then movieclip.gotoAndPlay("whateva");

pls help if possible.
Thanks in advance.

[rdoyle720]

I was hoping part of the date object would tell you what day of the year it was (i.e. day 300 of 365), but apparently they don't have that.

Your best bet might be to use Date.getTime() to get the number of milliseconds from January 1, 1970 and calculate how many milliseconds are in the amount of time you want to pass. Once you figure that out, it would simply be a matter of subtraction from the current time and the last time they clicked, and seeing whether it was greater than your magic time passed number.

[sintech]

I used the date.getTime() thing and I think it worked I just hope I found the right conversion from days to miliseconds
what i found was
1 day= 86,400,000ms
so i just did
today=mydate.getTime()/86,400,000

and that = 12422384880 and some change so I think this will work just fine so
Thank you.

PS if anyone finds this conversion to be wrong please leave a message to tell me the right ammount of miliseconds in a day.

[sintech]

hmm must have spoken too soon it actually is changing the whole number everytime i look at it this isn't working quite yet

[Steve_w_V]

You aren't allowed to use swf footers.

[sintech]

I know be\ut we used to be able to and I never changed the code