birthday - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

12-22-2003, 12:06 PM

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hi, how can i tell if its someones birthday?

i have the date of birth 00/00/0000, and i have todays date, i want to know if they match. i could use the left() function to see if the day and month match but.... i have a time shift thing on it for timezones. i have a sub that will need to take the time and add or take the correct amount of hours, then if it goes to another day, it needs to adjust the date.

any ideas how i can do the timeshift AND the birthday subs?

i know i can use the datediff() function but im not quite sure how to go about it, i need the timeshift result to be in the same format as the now function

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12-22-2003, 12:09 PM

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ok, just make something like this:

Code:

If Cdate(now) = cdate("01/01/2003) then
  'yes its today
End If

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12-22-2003, 12:19 PM

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You could use the DatePart function to compare the Day and Month of both the BirthDate and the current Date or you could use the Day and Month functions to a similar comparison.

Code:

' Assumes dteBirth is a variable containing the date of birth.
If Month(dteBirth) = Month(Date) And Day(dteBirth) = Day(Date) Then
    MsgBox "Today is your birthday!"
End If

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12-22-2003, 12:28 PM

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ok, that looks like its gonna work fine now, thanx.

now what about the dateshift part? the timezone will be stored as hour and minute difference. 00:00. how do i make a function that can take care of that

private function DateShift(nDate as date) as date

i need it to convert the whole date and time, not just the time, if its 11:00 pm and someone is in a +3:00 timezone then it will show as 14:00 am. how do i sort that out?

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