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Date Detector - Changes Date According to System Clock

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Useful for event dates - looks at the computers clock and tells the user when something will be available (e.g. this friday, tomorrow, etc). In this example I'm just using the day of a month, but you can use any part/the full date if you desire.

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  1. var showNowDate : Boolean;
  2. var today_date : Date = new Date();
  3. var thismonth : uint = today_date.getMonth();
  4. var mnth : Array = new Array( 'January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December' );
  5. var date_str : String = ( today_date.getDate()+" "+mnth[thismonth]+" "+today_date.getFullYear());
  6.  
  7. // displays current date in United States date format
  8. trace(date_str);
  9.  
  10. // create sample text field
  11. var dateTxt : TextField = new TextField();
  12. addChild(dateTxt);
  13.  
  14. handleDate();
  15.  
  16. function handleDate() 
  17. {
  18. 	var d = today_date.date;
  19.  
  20. 	// replace these 'if statements' as needed.
  21.  
  22. 	if ( d < 17 ) 
  23. 	{
  24. 		dateTxt.text = "Coming July 23";
  25.  
  26. 	} else if ( d > 17 && d < 22 ) {
  27. 		dateTxt.text = "Coming Friday";
  28.  
  29. 	} else if ( d == 22 ) {
  30. 		dateTxt.text = "Coming Tomorrow";
  31.  
  32. 	} else {
  33.  
  34. 		dateTxt.text = "Now!";
  35. 	}
  36. }

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