Date Object

[ericflash]

I have a situation where I have a date in this format.

var currentDate : String = "09/22/09"

and I want to be able to change this dynamically to the next date.
like you had currentDate +1
The reason for this is the user selects this date but I want another field to display the next date after this.

I thought about using the date object to take care of this for me but I'm not sure that will work.
If I pass the date object this format it returns.
newDate = Wed Sep 22 00:00:00 GMT-0500 1909

I could start stripping out the currentDate and adding in lots of if statements for the month year and date and figuring out leap years but I thought the date object could solve all this.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[5TonsOfFlax]

Use Date.parse to get a number of milliseconds representing that date. Add the number of milliseconds in a day to that, and use setTime on a new Date. That Date object will then represent your new Date. If you need it in a String, you can use toDateString. I'm not sure if there's a way to format that other than the default. You could always use getMonth, getDate and getYear to build your string.

[dudeqwerty]

var currentDate:String = "04/30/09";
function getNextDate(d:String):String {
	var temp:Array = d.split("/");
	var date:Date = new Date(int((temp[2].length==2?"20":"")+temp[2]), int(temp[0])+1, int(temp[1]));
	date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
	//date.
	var newMonth:Number = date.getMonth()-1;
	var newDay:Number = date.getDate();
	var newYear:Number = date.getFullYear() - 2000;
	return ((newMonth>9?newMonth:"0"+newMonth)+"/"+(newDay>9?newDay:"0"+newDay)+"/"+(newYear>9?newYear:"0"+newYear));
}
trace(getNextDate(currentDate));

[dudeqwerty]

Oops, little mistake, should probably test code in flash before posting!!!

var currentDate:String = "03/31/09";
function getNextDate(d:String):String {
	var temp:Array = d.split("/");
	var date:Date = new Date(int((temp[2].length==2?"20":"")+temp[2]), int(temp[0])-1, int(temp[1]));
	date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
	//date.
	var newMonth:Number = date.getMonth()+1;
	var newDay:Number = date.getDate();
	var newYear:Number = date.getFullYear() - 2000;
	return ((newMonth>9?newMonth:"0"+newMonth)+"/"+(newDay>9?newDay:"0"+newDay)+"/"+(newYear>9?newYear:"0"+newYear));
}
trace(getNextDate(currentDate));