RE: Compare Dates

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Kay
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:55 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Compare Dates
>
>
> > I want to compare two dates to find out which comes first.
> > 2000-12-19
> > What I don´t want to do is to compare each number, if I validate the
> > formate is there a XSL function to see which date comes first??????
>
> If the dates are in ISO format just strip the hyphens and compare as
> numbers:
>
> xsl:if test="translate($date1, '-', '') < translate($date2, '-', '')"

Note however that this won't work properly if the ISO date contains trailing
time zone information...


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