Questions about Date in flash

The code below will find the first day and last day of the month. It has trace statements that will output a message on where to create code for these tables and entry fields that you plan to have. I don’t know if you need to create these tables/entries for the whole year or not, if so then you need to change the month parameter for the Date object constructor.

Yes it is doable. Check the help filed for the Date class. There you will find the getDay() method. This returns an integer representing the day of the week a given date will fall upon. It starts 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, and so on.

So to figure out which day August 1, 2006 was you would do this:

myDate=new Date(2006,7,1)//Remember months start at 0 for Jan
startDay=myDate.getDay();
trace(startDay)//Should be 2 for Tuesday

Also a nice trick is this:

myDate=new Date(2006,7,0);

That gives you the zeroth day for August which is really the last day of July. I'm sure you will find a million uses for that.