[SOLVED] Help needed with Javascript

[jdadwilson]

First let me say I am a complete newbie to javascript.

 

I found the following script recently. Its purpose is to identify if a date is a holiday. Looks very good. Problem is this I have no clue as to the required format of the input variable.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

TIA... here is a snippet of the function.

 

function check_holiday (dt_date) {

 

// check simple dates (month/date - no leading zeroes)

var n_date = dt_date.getDate(),

n_month = dt_date.getMonth() + 1;

var s_date1 = n_month + '/' + n_date;

 

if ( s_date1 == '1/1' // New Year's Day

|| s_date1 == '6/14' // Flag Day

|| s_date1 == '7/4' // Independence Day

|| s_date1 == '11/11' // Veterans Day

|| s_date1 == '12/25' // Christmas Day

) return true;

 

return false;

}

[Karl33to]

looks like its being passed a date object, consider the following...

 

// checks to see if todays date is a holiday
var dt_date= new Date();
if(check_holiday (dt_date)) {
    alert("date OK");
}

// check another date
var dt_date= new Date("October 12, 1988");
if(check_holiday (dt_date)) {
    alert("date OK");
}