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Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison

From Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison
Date 2012-09-26 02:36 +0200
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justaguy wrote:
> I've entered the value of "9/25/2012" (of course without quotes) for
> the dateField entry, but the case switch returns to default, so, I
> guess 9/25/2012  is not the value for a date, then what?

See
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date>:

| The JavaScript date is measured in milliseconds since midnight
| 01 January, 1970 UTC.

BTW: you should terminate your case clauses with break, if they are not
otherwise terminated, to avoid a fall-through.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-25 17:21 -0700
  Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-09-26 02:36 +0200
    Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-25 18:39 -0700
      Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-09-26 07:57 +0300
        Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Dr J R Stockton <reply1239@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-09-27 21:27 +0100
          Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-10-03 00:12 -0700
            Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Dr J R Stockton <reply1240@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-04 19:36 +0100
              Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 13:21 -0700
                Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Dr J R Stockton <reply1240@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-06 19:06 +0100
                Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-10-07 08:03 +0000
                Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-07 09:48 +0100
                Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-10-07 10:09 +0000
  Re: silly question on Date value evaluation or comparison Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-09-26 09:11 +0200

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