how to retrive todays date in Flash

[vij]

Can someone help me to retrive todays date in flash automatically...
i would be really grateful..
thanks

[Jesse]

You can search the forums for heaps of code examples. One stright from Macromedia's AS Dictionary (Fromt he Flash Help Menu):
myDate = new Date();
dateTextField = (mydate.getMonth() + "/" + myDate.getDate() + "/" + mydate.getFullYear());

Returns the date in mm/dd/yyyy form.

[BiggieD]

How do you add zeros on the ends of minutes and hours if there's only one digit?...i've seen this code like fifty times, but it never worked for me....?

[Jesse]

well I've not seen any before so I made my onw:
// Zero filler by Jesse, http://www.actionscripts.org
function zeroFill (string, reqLength) {
var tooBig = string.length>=reqLength;
if (!tooBig) {
var dif = reqLength-string.length;
for (var j = 0; j<dif; j++) {
string = "0"+string;
}
}
return string;
}
trace (zeroFill("123",4));

[isleshocky77]

I made a time thing but I had the same problem w/ the zeros. How do I use your code w/ mine.

code:
----------------------------
//Variables
myTime = new Date();
hour = myTime.getHours();
minutes = myTime.getMinutes();
seconds = myTime.getSeconds();
milliseconds = myTime.getMilliseconds();
//------------------------------
// Sends Time to textbox
//------------------------------
timeTextField = hour+":"+minutes+":"+seconds;
//------------------------------
-----------------------------

[Jesse]

// Zero Fill Time Code
// by Jesse Stratford, http://www.actionscripts.org
// Set time vars
myTime = new Date();
hours = myTime.getHours();
minutes = myTime.getMinutes();
seconds = myTime.getSeconds();
milliseconds = myTime.getMilliseconds();
// Zero filler by Jesse, http://www.actionscripts.org
function zeroFill (string, reqLength) {
var tooBig = length(string)>=reqLength;
if (!tooBig) {
var dif = reqLength-length(string);
for (var j = 0; j<dif; j++) {
string = "0"+string;
}
}
return string;
}
hours = zeroFill(hours, 2);
minutes = zeroFill(minutes, 2);
seconds = zeroFill(seconds, 2);
milliseconds = zeroFill(milliseconds, 3);
// Set text field var
timeTextField = hour+":"+minutes+":"+seconds;