Re: how to compare 2 dates

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Diego - Red Baires <diego_redbaires@hotmail.com> wrote:

hi again guys,

i cant find information regarding the comparision of dates and times.

myDate = "05/21/2009";

if ( os.date()> myDate) then
  print "myDate is a previuos date";

if ( os.date() = myDate) then
  print "myDate is today";

if ( os.date() < myDate) then
  print "myDate is in the future";

is this correct ?
will this work to all locales ?

what about comparing times ? (i mean, if a time is between two values)

thanks one more time

No that won't work. Dates are tricky to handle. And it's not good to treat them as strings.

Have a look at the luadate library: http://luaforge.net/projects/date/

Robby