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[amibroker] Re: using PARAMDATE() question- cant get it to work



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no one has any luck with this question ???


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, das300@xxxx wrote:
> 
> IM trying to get a date from PARAM window and create a trigger when 
> that date becomes the days date but I am having trouble converting 
> both to a number system that can be compared .
> 
> What have I missed ?
> regards
> 
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, das300@xxxx wrote:
> > 
> > here is my code for using dateparam
> > 
> > start =  ParamDate( "Start Date", "15-10-2004", 0) ;
> > 
> > Trigday = IIf( DateNum() == start,1,0) ;
> > 
> > I writeval and get the follwing
> > 
> > when intitialised and looking at the trigday date with cursur
> > 
> > when i go to 15-10-2004 i get
> > 
> > datnum  	1,041,015.000
> > start  		1,041,015.000
> > 
> > when i go to 18-10-2004 i get 
> > 
> > datnum  	1,041,018.000
> > start  		20,041,018.000
> > 
> > why did start jump by 19 000 000 ???
> > 
> > have I assumed something very wrong??





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