I'm creating a custom ASP.Net validator that checks if the data entered is a non working day.
The definition of "non working day" is:
- The date is either a Saturday or Sunday
- The date is a national holiday
I've coded the c# stuff and have created expando attributes for the error message and a string of holiday dates. Having done that, I've created a javascript function that contains this code to check for none working days. I've removed other code for brevity.
if (sender.NonWorkingDayErrorMessage && sender.Holidays) {
// Is weekend
if (date.getDay() == 6 || date.getDay() == 0) {
sender.innerHTML = sender.NonWorkingDayErrorMessage;
return;
}
// Is holiday
var holidays = sender.Holidays.split(";");
for (var i = 0; i < holidays.length; i++) {
var h = new Date(Date.parse(holidays[i]));
if (h === date) {
sender.innerHTML = sender.NonWorkingDayErrorMessage;
return;
}
}
}
The issue I have is that the code h === date is always false - here's the output I get when I add an alert and type in 26/8/2013.
Mon Aug 26 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Standard Time) => Mon Aug 26 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Standard Time) => false
As you can see I parse the holidays but I also test the input 'date' like this further up the function like this:
// Deconstruct string and reconstruct
// as date.
var parts = args.Value.split("/");
var day = parseInt(parts[0],10);
var month = parseInt(parts[1],10) -1;
var year = parseInt(parts[2],10);
var date = new Date(year, month, day);
// Valid date format but not a valid date
if (date.getFullYear() !== year || date.getMonth() !== month || date.getDate() !== day) {
sender.innerHTML = sender.InvalidErrorMessage;
return;
}
Anyone got ideas as to why these two dates aren't seen as matches?