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farhannasir
08-26-2003, 05:01 PM
Hi

It may be dumb question but i am new to javascript.

How we can add days to system date i tried following but no sunccess.

var gnow = new date() + 7

In any other language it is simple to add number in date().

Please help me.

Thanks

pyro
08-26-2003, 05:14 PM
Try something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
days = 7; // number of days to add
var date = new Date()
date = date.getTime();
days = date+1000*60*60*24*days;
now = new Date(days);
alert (now);
</script>

farhannasir
08-26-2003, 05:20 PM
Thanks very much for your help i wasted many hours to solve it and you did it in few minutes.

Thanks again

pyro
08-26-2003, 05:21 PM
Glad I could help you out... :)