What am i doing wrong.....?????

[webguy-norman]

Hello pplz,

Here i am generating some sort of count down based upon a fixed date (lets say may 15th, as used in the code below)

If i can still do some calculating i should get a result somewhere (counted from this post's entry date March 22) around the 55, but when running this script the result displayed in my swf doesn't go further than 39

is there anyone in the house that can tell me what goes wrong down here......

//-------------CODE--------------------------------
now = new Date();
dateNow = now.getDate();
monthNow = now.getMonth();
daysInMarch = 31;
daysInApril = 30;
daysInMay = 15;
if (monthNow == 1) {
daysLeftInMarch = daysInMarch-dateNow;
daysLeft = daysLeftInMarch+daysInApril+31;
} else if (monthNow == 2) {
daysLeftInApril = daysInApril-dateNow;
daysLeft = daysLeftInApril+31;
} else if (monthNow == 3) {
daysLeftInMay = daysInMay-dateNow;
daysLeft = daysLeftInMay+31;
} else {
daysLeft = 31-dateNow;
}
DateCount = daysLeft;
//----------------CODE-------------------------

Thanx in advance

[swills]

I'm a bit busy at work, so why not look at
:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=257914

swills

[^1letser]

when you use .getMonth(); you will receive a number.
0 = january
1 = february
2 = march
3 = april

you have put the wrong numbers in you if-statements.
this code should do the trick

now = new Date(); 
dateNow = now.getDate(); 
monthNow = now.getMonth(); 
daysInMarch = 31; 
daysInApril = 30; 
daysInMay = 15; 
if (monthNow == 2) { 
daysLeftInMarch = daysInMarch-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInMarch+daysInApril+31; 
} else if (monthNow == 3) { 
daysLeftInApril = daysInApril-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInApril+31; 
} else if (monthNow == 4) { 
daysLeftInMay = daysInMay-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInMay+31; 
} else { 
daysLeft = 31-dateNow; 
} 
DateCount = daysLeft;

[webguy-norman]

Originally posted by ^1letser
when you use .getMonth(); you will receive a number.
0 = january
1 = february
2 = march
3 = april

you have put the wrong numbers in you if-statements.
this code should do the trick

now = new Date(); 
dateNow = now.getDate(); 
monthNow = now.getMonth(); 
daysInMarch = 31; 
daysInApril = 30; 
daysInMay = 15; 
if (monthNow == 2) { 
daysLeftInMarch = daysInMarch-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInMarch+daysInApril+31; 
} else if (monthNow == 3) { 
daysLeftInApril = daysInApril-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInApril+31; 
} else if (monthNow == 4) { 
daysLeftInMay = daysInMay-dateNow; 
daysLeft = daysLeftInMay+31; 
} else { 
daysLeft = 31-dateNow; 
} 
DateCount = daysLeft;

Thanx ... Those where the enlighting words i was looking for... i did know flash isn't able to count from a zeropoint but i forgot from pure frustration...

Thanx again..