Date functions

[madscijr]

This all looks mighty mighty complicated, folks. Everything is there in VB-Script to do calculations with dates, and it's easy. The question is, can one integrate a VB script into QB64, because that would really be the easiest way.

Not to forget, these functions are from MS itself and have proven themselves many times over; earlier, when VB-Script was also used in websites.

The big problem with relying on vbscript is that it isn't cross-platform. 
It works for Windows, but not Mac and Linux.

Agreed! This may sound rude, but 98% of all QB64 users are likely to do this on a Windows system. Should 2% determine over 98%? I do not think that this is well.

If you just use QB64PE on Windows and using vbscript works, great. 

I myself use vbscript for a ton of things on Windows, but I do like knowing my programs can work on those other OSes. So if someone wants to write some native QB64PE date functions that are multi-platform compatible, I can see the value.

Along those lines, I would imagine that much of the commonly used date functionality has been written before in GW Basic, QuickBasic, in VB 3-6, etc. Or any procedural language that can be ported over to QB64. It might be helpful if they can be updated to work with QB64 (or to learn from).