Date bug?

[Peter Brigham MD]

On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hey, can anyone try this or tell me why it doesn't work?
> If I use any other date than 11/07/2010, it generates the next date.  
> But for
> some reason Nov 7 doesn't work?
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "11/07/2010" into tDate
>   answer nextDayDate(tDate)
> end mouseUp
>
> function nextDayDate pDate
>   convert pDate to seconds
>
>   put 60*60*24 into tSecondsInDay
>   add tSecondsInDay to pDate
>   convert pDate to short date
>   return pDate
> end nextDayDate

I think it is related to the daylight savings shift, that's why it  
works if you add an hour. Here's what I use, to avoid all problems:

function nextDayDate pDate
    convert pDate to dateitems
    add 1 to item 2 of pDate
    convert pDate to short date
    return pDate
end nextDayDate

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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