Getting date from user input.

[CAsba]

Hi,
I need to get dates from user input, but I don't want to use the Datepicker.
So far, I have managed to get the day month and year into a field with two "/" seperators, which gives the appearance of a date, like '23/6/2023'
My problem is that I cannot convert it to seconds in order to subtract the date field from the date in the 'today' field, into which I have 'put the date' (entered today's date).
Is there a way to do this ?

[Klaus]

Just set the itemdelimiter to / and "swap" the first and second item.
Then you have an english date to let LC work with.

P.S.
Do you know how to do this?

[Klaus]

No idea where you are from, but why not work with the date formats in your country?
We have -> the system date etc. in LC!

Example:
I live in germany and -> put the system date gives me: 07.02.23
And I can use this like this:

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convert "07.02.23" from SYSTEM date to seconds

Just an idea, maybe not working for you...

[CAsba]

Hi again,
Here's a bit more detail re my problem..
The code is:

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local tDate, tDate2, tDifference
   set the itemdelimiter to "\"
   put field "startmth" & "\" &  field "startday" &  "\" & field "startyr" into field "date1"
   put fld "date1" && "12:00 PM" into tdate
   convert tdate to seconds
   put tdate into fld "field2"  

Startmth, startday and startyr are user inputs.
In field2 I get '4/3/23 12.00pm'. It looks like a date, but does not convert to seconds, so it cannot be used as a date, to be compared with 'today' to indicate if it is in the future or past.

[AndyP]

Hi, have a look at this thread, see if it helps.

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... er#p196089

[CAsba]

Thanks AndyP for your interest. I don't want to use the Calendar, it's a question of maintaining a consistent presentation. Thanks, anyway..

[CAsba]

Many thanks to all - I just realised I was using "/" when it should have been "\".