Working with dates around month end

[tinkerz]

I am using a formula

ToDay(Time[0]) == date-2

where date is in 20120702 (int) format, it works fine for the month, but for a month end it wont work,

Is there a simple solution to take a date stored as an int to work around month ends, just to take away 2 days or so?

Thanks

Tinkerz

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello Tinkerz,
If you try the below code then are you getting the correct values.

if (ToDay(Time[0]) == ToDay(new DateTime(2012, 7, 2).AddDays(-2)))
{
	//do something
}

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?today.htm

[tinkerz]

My date time is a list of dates in int format to I am matching them up

The numbers will be changing all the time, so
(2012, 7, 2)
will change to 20120702, how can I make that bit change inline with my date integer?

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello tinkerz,
You have to either use a List of DateTime (List<DateTime>) or you can further custom code it and extract the year, month and day from the integer.

For example to find the year you can use the below function.

private int IntToYear(int date)
{
           return (int)(date / 10000);
}

And call it from the code as

int year = IntToYear(20121026);

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?functions_and_methods_explaine.htm