Re: Advice on datetime manipulation
Re: Advice on datetime manipulation
- Subject: Re: Advice on datetime manipulation
- From: Sacha Michel Mallais <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:32:05 -0700
On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Dev WO wrote:
Hi list,
usually I do something stupid and then ask for your help;) so this
time I though it would be wise to ask before doing something "not
good":)
So I have to handle poneys and horses (yes it's funny), and they
have something very specific:
These "items" aren't 1 year old when they have 12 month!
In fact they get 1 year old when they cross their first "new year",
so if it has born on december 29th it will be 1 year old only 3
days after...
And I have to manage "categories" depending of their "age".
So my question is regarding the clever way to handle that.
I've got their date of birth in database. I don't think I can
handle something like their "official age" directly in the EOModel
(but I may be wrong), so I think I have to handle that directly in
code.
Quite some items are already in the database, but maybe it would be
good to handle this when they insert the item like having another
attribute "official date of birth" which will be set to the
previous new year and so doing the "regular" calculation on this
attribute and not on the "real" date of birth.
Or handling all this when generating the list only.
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated, or pointer to specific
method that would be of help:)
Sounds like the "age" is a calculated field, based on date of birth.
Your best bet is probably to create a method "age" on your EO that
returns the age, calculated from the date of birth.
HTH,
sacha
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