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Truncating Dates

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May 24.2004

I have a variable that is holding a date object and I have another variable that is entered by a user which has been converted into date format.

I am having problems Date checking because todays date is holding a time as well and not the time from midnight. below is roughly the code…

[code]
 var todaysDate = new Date();
var enteredDate; // has been set

if (enteredDate < todaysDate) {
alert(“The date must be today or in the future.”);
return false;
}
[/code]

If the dates are the same then it is passing so I need to truncate the todaysDate. I did todaysDate.setTime(0) but it sets it to 1970.

How do you do this?

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@fredmvMay 24.2004 — I believe what you're looking for is either the [font=courier]getTime[/font] or [font=courier]valueOf[/font] methods of the [font=courier]Date[/font] object.
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@ellisd5authorMay 24.2004 — Nope its not it, Those 2 methods are returning the dates in miliseconds or something else, one needs truncating. Im sure I have done it before by

[b]set????(0, 0, 0, 0)[/b]
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