Getting full date like 02/01/2003

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How do you get that?

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myDate = new Date()
myYear = myDate.getFullYear()
myMonth = myDate.getMonth()
myDay = myDate.getDay()
dateBox.text = myDay + "/" + myMonth + "/" + myYear

place a dynamic text field on the stage and name it “dateBox” [no quotes]

3

Here is some code I whipped up when I was working on a new site…


// This creates two ARRAYs that swap returned numbers with values (i.e. 0=Sunday, 4=Thursday & 1=January, 7=August)
onClipEvent (load) {
    days = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday');
    months = new Array('January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
    timedate = new Date();
}
// This action actually calls out to the users system to grab the current date and time
// The date is grabbed from the ARRAYs earlier set
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    now = new Date();
    todaydate = timedate.getDate();
    day = timedate.getDay();
    dayname = days[day];
    month = (timedate.getMonth()+1);
    monthname = months[month-1];
    year = timedate.getFullYear();
    seconds = now.getSeconds();
    minutes = now.getMinutes();
    hours = now.getHours();
    if (Hours>=12) {
        ampm = "pm";
    } else {
        ampm = "am";
    }
    if (Hours>=13) {
        Hours = Hours-12;
    }
    if (length(Minutes) == 1) {
        Minutes = "0"+Minutes;
    }
    if (length(Seconds) == 1) {
        Seconds = "0"+Seconds;
    }
    currenttime = Hours+":"+Minutes+":"+Seconds+" "+ampm;
    currentdate = todaydate+"/"+month+"/"+year;
    fulldate = dayname+", "+monthname+" "+todaydate+", "+year;
    delete timedate;
    timedate = new Date();
}

Probably foreign if you dont understand the script so I was kind enough to zip a fla with the source and code in there. This also has the time, but if you want to remove it just delted the time textbox, I wouldn’t suggest editing the code.

4

Also, since they replied as well, here is a tutorial that I wrote that gets the date and time. You can modify the code to get just the date:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/digital_clock.asp

5

Thanks for all this information!