Update a variable with the current date and time

Hi Ashley, thank you; I'm happy to be here!  Michael, thanks for answering my post so quickly. I'm traveling now, but I'll test drive it as soon as I get in.

Pam

Well we're happy to have you!

Hi, this is a great solution. I'm no expect in Javascript so I'm struggling to work this out. I would like to know what the code is to display the date 3 months ago. So the current date minus 3 months.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Phil

Hi Phil,

This thread is a bit older so I"m not certain that folks are still subscribed, but you may want to use the "contact me" feature on their profiles to reach out direcly about how they may have accomplished this. 

Hi Ashley,

It's okay I think I have figured it out.

I changed the +1 value on the month to -1 instead and that brings me back to January which is correct :)

var month = currentDate.getMonth() - 1

Glad you were able to figure something out Phil and thanks for sharing it here as I know there are often users who are looking for Javascript solutions! 

I have actually found a flaw in my code. If I set my system time back to January 10th and run the script again, the date is displayed as 10/-1/15 rather than 10/10/14 I guess it's doing this because changing the month variable will not automatically change the year.

Any suggestions?

I am not equipped to help with Javascript issues, so I'll defer to the community on this set up. 

I had issues getting this code to work, so I (not having any Javascripting experience) tinkered around with it until it did. Here is the code that does work which I have setup via two javascript triggers:

Trigger 1

var currentDate = new Date()
var day = currentDate.getDate()
var month = currentDate.getMonth() + 1
var year = currentDate.getFullYear();
var player = GetPlayer();
var newName = month + "/" + day + "/" +year
player.SetVar("DateValue", newName);

Trigger 2

var currentTime = new Date()
var hours = currentTime.getHours()
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()
var seconds = currentTime.getSeconds()
if (hours <12)
var suffix = "AM";
if (hours >= 12)
var suffix = "PM";

var CurTime = hours+":"+minutes+":"+seconds+" "+suffix;
player.SetVar("TimeValue",CurTime);

To get this to work in Storyline, first setup two text variables, "DateValue", and "TimeValue". Then on your slide or master slide, setup a text box or object and then insert two references for DateValue and TimeValue. I simply set the triggers to execute Javascript when timeline starts.

You can modify the code easily by modifying the varCurTime, or var newName lines. I really am not sure what that nested statement in the time code was about in the original code but I could not get it to work.

 Test file attached.

Glad this thread helped you out Elaine!