Add days to a date

[allan@powerglide.co.nz]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me with a solution to adding a certain number of days to a date form. I'm creating a quote form and I have one field for the date the quote is created, and a little further down the page I have a field that I want to show when the quote will expire, which is +90 days.

I assume this can be done with Javascript but I cannot figure out how.

Any help or direction will be greatly appreciated

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello Allan,

Something like this should do the trick for you:

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var curDate = new Date(); // Gets date object for right now
var newDate = new Date(); 
newDate.setTime(curDate.getTime() + 7776000000);
var strDate = util.printd("ddd, mmm dd, yyyy", newDate); 
console.println(strDate);

The above of course outputs to the command line and as base uses the current date and time. You will need to get your start time from a field and put the new value to a field, but it was just to show you how to work with dates.
The 7 776 000 000 value is 60 x 60 x 24 x 90 x 1000 (so 90 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds x milliseconds)

Regards,
Stefan

[allan@powerglide.co.nz]

Thanks Stefan,

And sorry for the slow reply, I only just saw this now

Cheers

[Will - Tracker Supp]