I need to compare dates (2)

I do not understand;

"...than today of 2 days ago?"

Can you explain what this means?

Do you want to subtract two days from 'today' and compare that with the one or both of the dates?

Thx.

John

Right....

Everyday, I need to compare a list of images (last Modified) with another...so I only keep the need ones.

Last modified today on weekday!

So, on instance 1 Monday to Friday ....I run the program everyday to check if there are any images modified that day!

When it comes to the weekend t's different because I need to get all images 2 day's old or newer!

Hope this explains it better!

Thanks

ST3VO

Someone will probably get you the answer and full code you desire, but in any case, here is a start. (Don't have Delphi right now to test or do much).

Use EncodeDate in SysUtils

Parse your text dates into its parts, turn the day, into the numeric day i.e., WED = 4, and do:

if EncodeDate(YearNow, MonthNow, DayNow) - 2 > EncodeDate(YearLastFri, MonthLastFri, DayLastFri) then
 ShowMessage('Today is greater than Last Friday by two days');

We would subtract 2  from the current date to adjust for the weekend or 2 days before today.

Might get ya going until I or someone else codes it all up for you.

Hope I helped a bit.

John

I think I understand, but maybe you could clarify. You have 2 dates 11/01/2007 - 10/01/2007 , which one of these dated do you want to check against DateTime.Today.AddDays(-2)

hi
have a look on these tow functions and then decide what you want to do:
1.
function CompareDate(const ADate, BDate: TDateTime) : TValueRelationship

Compares two TDateTime values (returns "less", "equal" or "greater"). Ignores the Time part if both values "fall" on the same day.

TValueRelationship represents the relationship between two values. Each of three TValueRelationship values has a "liked" symbolic constant:
-1 [LessThanValue] The first value is less than the second value.
0 [EqualsValue] The two values are equal.
1 [GreaterThanValue] The first value is greater than the second value.

2.
function DayOfTheWeek ( const Date : TDateTime ) : Integer;

The DayOfTheWeek function returns an index number for the day of the week : 1  = Monday
2  = Tuesday
3  = Wednesday
4  = Thursday
5  = Friday
6  = Saturday
7  = Sunday

I think I would go for the first one!

Can I have some example code please?

That's for the conversion but what I really need is to compare dates....

I did not yet understand what you really want to do but this may help:

D1 is your date

case DayOfTheWeek(Now) of
    1..5:if D1 = now then
            ShowMessage('Done');
    6,7: if now - D1 <= 2 then
           ShowMessage('Done Weekend');
  else

  end;

You can get the file's timestamp directly using the FileAge() function.  You will need to convert this to a system date value with the FiledateToDateTime() function.

Example from:
http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/RTL.asp?Name=FileAge

var
  fileName   : string;
  fileDate   : Integer;

begin
  // Try to open the Unit1.DCU file for the current project
  fileName := 'Unit1.DCU';
  fileDate := FileAge(fileName);

  // Did we get the file age OK?
  if fileDate > -1 then
    ShowMessage(fileName+' last modified date = '+
                DateToStr(FileDateToDateTime(fileDate)));
end;

==================
other examples:
http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=142
http://www.festra.com/eng/snip03.htm
http://www.scalabium.com/faq/dct0046.htm

MP3 example from Borland:
http://codecentral.borland.com/Item/20163

The problem is that  the files I need to compare the dates from are online images.

Your example is local!

Would this work online?

Are the image files on a LAN file server?  If so, YES.

If not, then what do mean by "online"?

They are not on a LAN, They are images on the net!

please give us the URL and what method(s) you are using to look at the image files.

Done....Thanks to all for your time!

Note to international developers:

ShortMonthNames month names depend on the local settings.  Same is true for LongMonthNames array.