Year and Season auto output new information on each month

[Boy_Wonder]

That still makes zero sense to me

equestriads3.com/ < See that box to the right which says Year 1 Season Spring

I'm looking to make it so that a code does updates the number for the year and the season (currently spring) I just need to output those two in code

[Chris]

Give the H2 that contains the year an ID or CLASS so it can be easily addressed and do the same for the H2 containing the season.

So for example you give it a class of "year" and "season" then var accelerated_date = speedDate("Aug 28, 2014", 1.3);
$('h2.year').html(accelerated_date.getFullYear());
$('h2.season').html(getSeason(accelerated_date))

(e.g. the year would be something like "2015" )


If however by year you mean age (which I am starting to suspect after looking at that page) then subtract the start year from the calculated year to get the age.
var accelerated_date = speedDate("Aug 28, 2014", 1.3);
$('h2.year').html(accelerated_date.getFullYear() - 2014);
$('h2.season').html(getSeason(accelerated_date))


You use the output of the functions to generate content then target where you want it to appear, does that make more sense?

[Boy_Wonder]

Not really @_@ like I get 'how' it works but I don't get 'how' it works

[Chris]

The code has ample comments if you wish to study 'how' it works, if by 'how' you mean something else then elaborate

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Aug 29, 2015 5:29:11 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Not really @_@ like I get 'how' it works but I don't get 'how' it works

Are you asking to understand the innermost workings or more about how to use them?

[Boy_Wonder]

Aug 29, 2015 10:41:37 GMT -8 P̌̓aͧś̀t̀u͒le͆o͂2̀3̃̓ said:

Aug 29, 2015 5:29:11 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Not really @_@ like I get 'how' it works but I don't get 'how' it works

Are you asking to understand the innermost workings or more about how to use them?

How to use them primarily followed by how it works (but I can self study if need be)

[Chris]

Three functions,

• speedDate - outputs an accelerated/decelerated date. This function is used to generate a date which in your case fits a full year into the space of 8 months. To do that divide 12 by 8 to get the speed factor. Since all you want from this returned date is the year then call the getFullYear() method of the returned date object. If you want the age instead, which is the difference between the born date (start date) and the generated date then subtract one from the other then output it to a div, span, whatever of your choice
• getSeason - returns a season when given a date. Plug in the date you just got from speedDate to determine the season then output it to a div, span, whatever of your choice.
• isDate - a helper function to verify valid dates and returns a boolean value