Date class setters

Hello again,

I experienced that the Date class has no setters like:

Date.setHours(Number);
Date.setMinutes(Number);
Date.setSeconds(Number);
...

How can I create a new Date() object for example for today, but time of day 12:00 for example?

In regular JavaScript I write something like this:

var d = new Date();
d.setHours(12);
d.setMinutes(0);
d.setSeconds(0);

In Espruino this doesn't work :(

Best,

Tobias

A workaround could be:

var date = new Date();
var future = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate(), 12, 0, 0);
console.log(future.toString());

Best

Tobias

Hi - yes, at the moment that's what you'd have to do I'm afraid.

I've filed a bug for this though - so at some point I will add the setters. It'd make life a lot easier!

Great, thank you Gordon!

I've been playing with the date functions because I am trying to build an IP connected clock but I am having a nightmare. Probably the fact that I don't normally code but the references don't seem to work very well in practical applications. Once I've figured things out I should share what I've found but I don't have much time to work on it.

references don't seem to work very well in practical applications.

What do you mean by that?

Espruino - Pico user:
As a beginner I want to ask about the following construction (taken from MDM)...
var birthday = new Date('December 17, 1995 03:24:00');
But console.log( birthday.toString()); results in Thu Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT+0000.
Is the contruction with 'December 17, 1995 03:24:00' not possible?

Looks like Dec 17, 1995 03:24:00 works but December 17, 1995 03:24:00 doesn't.

I've just fixed this so it'll be in 1v81 of Espruino. Looks like JavaScript only really checks the first 3 characters, so for instance this should also work: (new Date('Decfdsm 17, 1995 03:24:00')).toString()

Thank you for the fast response :-)