Return calendar selected date as yday

[Jkeith247]

Hello all, I am curious if there is a way to convert the output of the calendar to the day of the year. I have looked all over the forums and haven't really found what I was looking for.

Where

$Date = GUICtrlCreateMonthCal(@year & "/" & @mon & "/" & @mday , 10, 10)
GuiCtrlSetOnEvent ($Date, "Date")

would be my calendar, when I click the day, I am trying to get it to give me the yday instead of the full date.

Func Date()
    MsgBox (4096, "Date", "The Date you have selected is "& GuiCtrlRead ($date))
;instead of $date being output, I would like it's respective "yday"
EndFunc

I have found the way to calculate this from the beginning of a year but how do I extract the year from the date selected to do this calculation? Any help would be greatly appreciated I am sure I am missing something really simple...

Thanks!

Edited June 8, 2011 by Jkeith247

[kaotkbliss]

If you are looking to just do this with the current day, then the macro @YDAY gives the current day of the year.

If you are looking to calculate the day of the year from another date, then look at the Date Management section of the User Defined Functions in the help

[Xenobiologist]

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <Date.au3>

Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1)

Example()

Func Example()
    Local $Date, $msg, $ok_B
    GUICreate("Get date", 210, 210)

    $Date = GUICtrlCreateMonthCal(@year & "/" & @mon & "/" & @mday, 10, 10)
    $ok_B = GuiCtrlCreateButton ('OK', 10, 180, 100)
    GUISetState()

    ; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed or timeout

    Do
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()
        If $msg = $ok_B Then MsgBox(0, 'Text',  1 + (_DateDiff('d', StringLeft(GUICtrlRead($Date), 4) & "/01/01 00:00:00", GUICtrlRead($Date))) & @CRLF & 'YDAY is : ' & @YDAY, 2)
    Until $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
EndFunc   ;==>Example

[Jkeith247]

Wow Xeno, you hit the nail on the head. Thank you so much! Sometimes you just need to see it, to understand it. AWESOME!

[Xenobiologist]

Glad, that I could help!