Show day/date in Flash/JS

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  • atle

    Hello! Long time since I've posted here now :) Good to be back.

    Anyhoo, what I need help with is a simple date "script". Quite like the one on top of this site. Where it says "saturday Nov 13, 204". I need a way to do this in Flash or with javascript. If it's JS, it has to let mes use gif's on the date.

    Any tips?

  • sureshot0

    myDate = new Date();

    myDay = myDate.getDay();
    myNumber = myDate.getDate();
    myMonth = myDate.getMonth();
    myYear = myDate.getFullYear();

    switch (myDay) {
    case 0:
    myFullDay = "Sunday";
    break;
    case 1:
    myFullDay = "Monday";
    break;
    case 2:
    myFullDay = "Tuesday";
    break;
    case 3:
    myFullDay = "Wednesday";
    break;
    case 4:
    myFullDay = "Thursday";
    break;
    case 5:
    myFullDay = "Friday";
    break;
    case 6:
    myFullDay = "Saturday";
    break;
    }

    switch (myMonth) {
    case 0:
    myFullMonth = "January";
    break;
    case 1:
    myFullMonth = "February";
    break;
    case 2:
    myFullMonth = "March";
    break;
    case 3:
    myFullMonth = "April";
    break;
    case 4:
    myFullMonth = "May";
    break;
    case 5:
    myFullMonth = "June";
    break;
    case 6:
    myFullMonth = "July";
    break;
    case 7:
    myFullMonth = "August";
    break;
    case 8:
    myFullMonth = "September";
    break;
    case 9:
    myFullMonth = "October";
    break;
    case 10:
    myFullMonth = "November";
    break;
    case 11:
    myFullMonth = "December";
    break;
    }

    exte = "th";

    switch (myNumber) {
    case 1:
    exte = "st";
    break;
    case 2:
    exte = "nd";
    break;
    case 3:
    exte = "rd";
    break;
    }

    currentDate = myFullMonth + ", " + myFullDay + " " + myNumber + exte + " " + myYear;

    than create a dynamic text field with var: currentDate

  • atle0

    Excellent!
    Thanks a lot :)