I have to say, I am really starting to dislike Dates in code. I wish the source code always used the same date format.
So herein the issue. When I change the date comparison to below (actually had this in the past) the issue comes with the date format:
new Date() = Thu Nov 05 2015 19:57:10 GMT-0500 (EST)
task.exectionDate = 2015-11-02 22:45:00.0
These are never less-than or greater than in the results.
(task.executionDate < pastDate):
[2015-11-08 19:57:10.311] [I] ===========================LOG-BEGIN======================= [2015-11-08 19:57:10.311] [I] Today's date: Sun Nov 08 2015 19:57:10 GMT-0500 (EST) [2015-11-08 19:57:10.311] [I] Past date: Thu Nov 05 2015 19:57:10 GMT-0500 (EST) [2015-11-08 19:57:10.311] [I] Past date in GMT: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:57:10 GMT [2015-11-08 19:57:10.311] [I] ===========================LOG-END========================= [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] Task name: TNG_createSnapshot [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] STATE: finished Execute date: 2015-11-02 22:45:00.0 [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] Task TNG_createSnapshot's records will be kept, for now [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] Task name: TNG_RemoveSnapshotByName [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] STATE: finished Execute date: 2015-11-05 22:45:00.0 [2015-11-08 19:57:10.379] [I] Task TNG_RemoveSnapshotByName's records will be kept, for now
(task.executionDate > pastDate):
2015-11-08 20:05:12.895] [I] ===========================LOG-BEGIN======================= [2015-11-08 20:05:12.895] [I] Today's date: Sun Nov 08 2015 20:05:12 GMT-0500 (EST) [2015-11-08 20:05:12.895] [I] Past date: Thu Nov 05 2015 20:05:12 GMT-0500 (EST) [2015-11-08 20:05:12.895] [I] Past date in GMT: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 01:05:12 GMT [2015-11-08 20:05:12.896] [I] ===========================LOG-END========================= [2015-11-08 20:05:12.969] [I] Task name: TNG_createSnapshot [2015-11-08 20:05:12.969] [I] STATE: finished Execute date: 2015-11-02 22:45:00.0 [2015-11-08 20:05:12.969] [I] Task TNG_createSnapshot's records will be kept, for now [2015-11-08 20:05:12.969] [I] Task name: TNG_RemoveSnapshotByName [2015-11-08 20:05:12.969] [I] STATE: finished Execute date: 2015-11-05 22:45:00.0 [2015-11-08 20:05:12.970] [I] Task TNG_RemoveSnapshotByName's records will be kept, for now
One of these should be marked for deletion. So my guess/assumption is the system cannot compare these dates as they are in different formats (why I converted them to GMT but did not pay attention they also get converted to a string).
So the next thing I tried was to Date.parse (which should return a date) the dates to get them into something common.
The pastDate (Date.parse(pastDate) = Past date: 1446772615000
When I do something similar to task.executionDate (Date.parse(task.executionDate)) = Execute date: NaN [Not-a-number].
I also tried (Date.UTC(task.executionDate)) = Execute date: NaN
My (uneducated) guess is the return of task.executionDate is not actually a date or am I just missing something obvious?
Thanks
B
