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Re: Date Conversion ?

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Date Conversion ?
Date 2013-12-17 00:35 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:06:55 +0700, JJ wrote:

>> Suggestion or Code very welcome.
>> 
>> btw, I can supply *my* code down to producing a correect date value,
>> but it is clumsy and embarassing. But I will if you insist.
> 
> Fix the date string then make them to a Date object so that you can get
> the timestamp integer value.
> 
> function parseDate(dateStr) {
>   //for "Mmm dd/yy" format, year 20nn only.
>   //converts to "Mmm dd yyyy" (good for FF, IE8, Chrome, Opera).
>   //returns NaN if dateStr is in invalid format.
>   var date=dateStr.replace(/([a-z]+ \d+)\/(\d+)/,"$1 20$2"); return (new
>   Date(date)).valueOf();
> }

To walk an array of numbers once to find the min and max values:

var low, high, i;
low = high = arr[0];
for( i = 1; i < arr.length; i++ ) {
	if ( arr[i] < low ) low = arr[i];
	if ( arr[i] > high ) high = arr[i];
}

// low and high are now the minimum and maximum values from the array

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Date Conversion ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-12-16 15:55 -0700
  Re: Date Conversion ? Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2013-12-17 01:06 +0100
    Re: Date Conversion ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-19 12:34 +0100
      Re: Date Conversion ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-20 22:29 +0100
        Re: Date Conversion ? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2013-12-23 10:00 -0200
  Re: Date Conversion ? JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-12-17 07:06 +0700
    Re: Date Conversion ? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-12-17 00:35 +0000
      Re: Date Conversion ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-12-16 18:16 -0700
      Re: Date Conversion ? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-12-17 10:09 +0100
        Re: Date Conversion ? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-12-17 17:02 +0000
        Re: Date Conversion ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-18 19:14 +0000
          Re: Date Conversion ? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-12-19 15:42 +0100
            Re: Date Conversion ? "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2013-12-19 09:20 -0600
              Re: Date Conversion ? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-12-20 10:04 +0100
      Re: Date Conversion ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-17 15:12 +0100
        Re: Date Conversion ? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2013-12-17 18:10 -0200
          Re: Date Conversion ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-17 21:42 +0100
    Re: Date Conversion ? Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2013-12-18 13:36 +0100
  Re: Date Conversion ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-17 19:02 +0000
    Re: Date Conversion ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-12-17 20:51 -0700
      Re: Date Conversion ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-19 20:21 +0000
        Re: Date Conversion ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-12-20 09:52 -0700
          Re: Date Conversion ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-21 20:41 +0000
            Re: Date Conversion ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-12-22 09:52 -0700

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