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Calculate Time???

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zishan876

zishan876

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Hi:
I have the following:
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/js/functions.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="/soap/ajax/10.0/connection.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
function initpage()
{

var d = "{!Delivery_Time__c.Actual_Arrival_Time__c}";
var e = "{!Dispatch_Schedule__c.Arrival_Time__c}";

var g=d.getTime()-e.getTime();

document.getElementById('div_tag').innerHTML = g ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#F3F3EC" onload="initpage()";> 
<font size="2" face="Verdana">
<div id="div_tag">Loading...</div></font>
</body>
</html>
d&e value has the date in it.. so I thought getTime() would separate it and calculate the time difference...
d value is 3/14/2008 3:15 AM
e value is 3/14/2008 2:00 AM
its an 1:15 difference which I want g to say...
Plz Help???
 
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You're treating "getTime" as a method on a String object - which it is not. Only the Date object has a getTime method, so you'd need to convert your Strings to Dates first.

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ok so if I do this it writes out 4500000???
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/js/functions.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="/soap/ajax/10.0/connection.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
function initpage()
{
//Set the two dates
var millennium =new Date("{!Delivery_Time__c.Actual_Arrival_Time__c}") ;
today=new Date("{!Dispatch_Schedule__c.Arrival_Time__c}");

document.write(millennium.getTime()-today.getTime());
}
</script>

</head>
<body bgcolor="#F3F3EC" onload="initpage()";> 
[\code]
does anyone know how to convert it so it states 1:15
Thanks
 
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ok so if I do this it writes out 4500000???
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What do you expect it to write out? The getTime method converts a date to milliseconds, so you're essentially calculating the millisecond difference between the 2 dates. 4500000 milliseconds is the same as 1.25 hours, which doesn't seem like a lot of time to me... [ponder]

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