Need help with Javascript date script

[spudz]

Hi,

I have a list of jobs with dates like:

Date Posted: 01/05/06

I need a javascript that will take today's date and subtract how ever many days it has been since the date above and output

Date Posted: 4 Days Ago.

I have no idea about how to go about this, as I dont have much of a background in JS.

Can anyone help me out?

Cheers,
Spudz.

[Buddy Bradley]

Have a read of this.

[spudz]

Hi I've changed what I want for this I've decided that all I want to do is print a date which if printDate(0) is set Today's date will be printed and if printDate(1) is set Yesterdays date will be printed.

So far I have

function printDate(offset) {
	var offsetAmount	= offset.value
	var currentTime		= new Date()
	var month			= currentTime.getMonth() + 1
	var day				= currentTime.getDate()
	var nDay			= day  - offsetAmount
	var year			= currentTime.getFullYear()
	
	document.write(nDay + "/" + month + "/" + year)
}

Can anyone point me in the right direction here, I havent a clue what I'm doin really

[felgall]

The following is amended to correctly subtract the number of days from the current date (to handle change of month).

function printDate(offset) {
var offsetAmount= offset.value
var currentTime= new Date()
currentTime.setDate(currentTime.getDate() - offsetAmount);
var month= currentTime.getMonth() + 1
var day= currentTime.getDate()
var year= currentTime.getFullYear()

document.write(nDay + "/" + month + "/" + year)
}

The other thing you need to look at is that document.write can only be used before the page finishes loading so you if it is goint to be run after that then you also need to replace that line either with an innerHTML call to update a part of the current page or by using the DOM methods to add the extra field into the page.