swap swf displayed in index.html,

[Peter Fettes]

This is a difficult one.. And I'm not sure anyone will be able to answer it or
if I should be asking this question in the flash forum section.

On my index page is a flash movie. My question is this ... I wish the user to
see a different version/style of this movie depending on the time/date they
visit the website i.e.

I want the index page to load a daytime.swf between 6.00am to 6.00pm and a
midnight.swf between 6.00pm to 6.00am.

I know.. it's tough.

Anyone got any ideas - or link to a tutorial on this.

Kind Regards,
Peter

[Clukey]

you can use flash, or javascript, and probably a few others, but I would use
flash because javascript can be disabled. Just look up the Date functions in
the flash helps, you'll probably use Date.getHours(). But just know that Date
functions get the informations from the viewer's computer so if their clock is
wrong then it won't work right.

[Peter Fettes]

Thank You,

Do you know of any online tutorials too, on this subject.

[Clukey]

I don't know of any tutorials, but it's really quite simple just follow these
steps for flash

1. create an empty movie the size of the "midnight" and "daytime" movies
2. create an empty movie clip labeled "holder" and put it in the top left
corner of the empty movie
3. put this code into the frame with the "holder" mc:

var d = new Date();
var hour = d.getHours();
if (hour>6 && hour<18) {
_root.holder.loadMovie("daytime.swf");
} else {
_root.holder.loadMovie("midnight.swf");
}

That should do what you need it to.