date/time string function : indication of after or before

[joobin]

Dear all,

I am trying to do an application which its role is to disable a boolean control after a specific date.

This specific date is chosen by the user in a string control.

For ex. the user enter the date 01.01.2015, and the application should disable the boolean control 1 year after so at 01.01.2016 (to do so, the application should always running ...)

Could you please suggest me an easy way to do that?

Of course I know that I can exract the day,month,year of my string and then convert then to numbers. But its quite difficult. I am searching for an easy way ! 🙂

Thank you very much

[GerdW]

Hi joobin,

some simple pseudocode:

IF timestamp1 >= timestamp2 THEN
  disable(boolean control)
ENDIF

What's the problem in comparing two timestamps?

This specific date is chosen by the user in a string control.

Why do you use a string control at all? Why not use a timestamp control, formatted to only show the date?

[joobin]

Ah yes!!

In fact I did not know that we can use Timemap control.

Of cours it will be much easier to use that. 

That is all I needed !

Thank you very much.