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    date to number

    hello all,

    in Excel, Dates can be formatted/converted to a single number. Is there a way in AS2.0 to do that?

    thanks,

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    Umm, you just make a Date object and then use the getTime() function which "Returns the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970, universal time, for the specified Date object."

    Try this code:

    Code:
    var date:Date = new Date(2015, 03, 03, 10, 20, 30, 400);
    trace(date.getTime());
    where Date(year, month, date, hour, min, sec, ms)

    Hope this helps
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    Thank you Sir for your help on that.
    - The first issue with that method; -ve numbers are obtained for dates before 1970 (<1970).
    - One more issue, now, if that same resulted number is needed to be converted back to the same date?
    The reason for asking this, to plot data on chart like in excel e.g. (Date vs. any-variable) .

    Regards!

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    Hi,

    Perhaps this might get you further along.

    PHP Code:
    var dateToGet:Date = new Date(1969111020);
    trace("Date: " dateToGet);

    var 
    dateToGetNumber:Number dateToGet.getTime();
    trace("Date number: " dateToGetNumber);

    var 
    numberToDate:Date = new Date(dateToGetNumber);
    trace(dateToGetNumber " -> " numberToDate); 
    and you might or probably do need to offset it.

    PHP Code:
    var utcOffset numberToDate.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 1000;
    var 
    utcNow:Date = new Date(numberToDate.valueOf() + utcOffset);
    trace(utcNow); 

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    Hi again,

    This might help too.

    PHP Code:
    var numbers:Array = new Array(128946000000468930000000770808000000);
    var 
    dates:Array = new Array();

    for (var 
    i:Number 0numbers.lengthi++)
    {
        var 
    numberToDate:Date = new Date(numbers[i]);
        var 
    offset:Number convert.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 1000;
        var 
    convertDate:Date = new Date(numberToDate.valueOf() + offset);
        
    trace(": " numbers[i] + " -> " numberToDate);
        
    dates.push(numberToDate);
    }


    for (var 
    j:Number 0dates.lengthj++)
    {
        var 
    dateToNumber:Number dates[j].getTime();
        
    trace("Date to number: " dates[j] + " -> " dateToNumber);


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    Hi,

    slight error there, ->
    PHP Code:
    var numbers:Array = new Array(128946000000468930000000770808000000);
    var 
    dates:Array = new Array();

    for (var 
    i:Number 0numbers.lengthi++)
    {
        var 
    numberToDate:Date = new Date(numbers[i]);
        var 
    offset:Number numberToDate.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 1000;
        var 
    convertDate:Date = new Date(numberToDate.valueOf() + offset);
        
    trace("Number to date: " numbers[i] + " -> " convertDate);
        
    dates.push(convertDate);
    }


    for (var 
    j:Number 0dates.lengthj++)
    {
        var 
    dateToNumber:Number dates[j].getTime();
        
    trace("Date to number: " dates[j] + " -> " dateToNumber);

    but i'm sure you can get to grips with it

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    Quote Originally Posted by fruitbeard View Post
    Hi again,

    This might help too.

    PHP Code:
    var numbers:Array = new Array(128946000000468930000000770808000000);
    var 
    dates:Array = new Array();

    for (var 
    i:Number 0numbers.lengthi++)
    {
        var 
    numberToDate:Date = new Date(numbers[i]);
        var 
    offset:Number convert.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 1000;
        var 
    convertDate:Date = new Date(numberToDate.valueOf() + offset);
        
    trace(": " numbers[i] + " -> " numberToDate);
        
    dates.push(numberToDate);
    }


    for (var 
    j:Number 0dates.lengthj++)
    {
        var 
    dateToNumber:Number dates[j].getTime();
        
    trace("Date to number: " dates[j] + " -> " dateToNumber);


    Thank you fruitbeard,

    This code works great.

    Regards!

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