Concatenate numbers

fs22 · April 24th, 2004, 08:57 AM

Does anyone know how to concatenate numbers? I am using the date() object and then trying to use the getMonth, etc. and put those together to form data as follows: 042320041200, which would be for April 4, 2004 at 12 noon. Has anyone ever done this?

Clay Hess

Greg Griffiths · April 25th, 2004, 06:51 AM

You can use the Get functions to get the elements of the date you need and then use .toString to convert them to a string :

<html>
<body>
<script language="javascript">
var startDate = new Date();
var theDay = startDate.getUTCDate();
// as the month array starts at 0
var theMonth = startDate.getMonth() + 1;
var theYear = startDate.getFullYear();
var theHours = startDate.getHours();
var theMins = startDate.getMinutes();

// pad them out - convert 1 to 01 for formatting
if (theDay.toString().length==1)
{
    theDay = "0" + theDay;
}
if (theMonth.toString().length==1)
{
    theMonth = "0" + theMonth;
}
if (theYear.toString().length==1)
{
    theYear = "0" + theYear;
}
if (theHours.toString().length==1)
{
    theHours = "0" + theHours;
}
if (theMins.toString().length==1)
{
    theMins = "0" + theMins;
}

document.write (theMonth + theDay + theYear + theHours + theMins);
</script>
</body>
</html>