creating dates into the future

skicrud · May 27th, 2004, 09:10 AM

using the following code to build a list of Tuesdays for the current year. Script starts to error after the 5th iteration. If I use any of the counter numbers instead of the var counter the script will find the appropriate day. With the var counter I have errors. Displaying the var counter to detect any errors.

<html>
<body>
<script>
var meetingDate = new Date("1 Jan 2004");

var counter = 6;

while (counter < 366 )
{
meetingDate.setDate(counter);
var dateNow = meetingDate.getDate();
var monthNow = meetingDate.getMonth() + 1;
var yearNow = meetingDate.getFullYear();

document.write("Tuesday " + monthNow + "/" + dateNow + "/" + yearNow + "-" + " counter is " + counter + "<br>");
counter = counter + 7;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

alyeng2000 · May 27th, 2004, 04:26 PM

the script is working very will getting all tuesdays in the year
what is the error appeared to you

Ahmed Ali
Software Developer

skicrud · May 28th, 2004, 10:38 AM

note the output fron week 5 on. this is where the problems start

Tuesday 1/6/2004- counter is 6
Tuesday 1/13/2004- counter is 13
Tuesday 1/20/2004- counter is 20
Tuesday 1/27/2004- counter is 27
Tuesday 2/3/2004- counter is 34
Tuesday 3/12/2004- counter is 41
Tuesday 4/17/2004- counter is 48
Tuesday 5/25/2004- counter is 55
Tuesday 7/1/2004- counter is 62
Tuesday 9/7/2004- counter is 69
Tuesday 11/15/2004- counter is 76
Tuesday 1/22/2005- counter is 83
Tuesday 3/31/2005- counter is 90
Tuesday 6/5/2005- counter is 97
Tuesday 9/12/2005- counter is 104
Tuesday 12/20/2005- counter is 111
Tuesday 3/28/2006- counter is 118
Tuesday 7/3/2006- counter is 125
Tuesday 11/9/2006- counter is 132
Tuesday 3/19/2007- counter is 139
Tuesday 7/24/2007- counter is 146
Tuesday 11/30/2007- counter is 153
Tuesday 4/8/2008- counter is 160

Snib · May 28th, 2004, 10:53 AM

Try declaring a new date every time.

Add this line right before the setDate line:

meetingDate = new Date();

HTH,

Snib

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