//Validate age
	var now = new Date()        
	var userAge = now.getFullYear() - parseInt(form.BirthYear.value);
	if (userAge <= 12) {
		alert("You are only " + userAge + ". Try again when you are 13."); 
		form.BirthYear.focus();
		form.BirthYear.select();
		return false;
	}
	if (userAge >= 80) {
		alert("Your BirthYear is not in correct format. Must be 4 digits long and getter than " + (now.getFullYear() - 80)); 
		form.BirthYear.focus();
		form.BirthYear.select();
		return false;
	}

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" TYPE="text/javascript">
function submitIt(form) {		//called for NEW MEMBER's registration
    if (form.Name.value == "" ) ...

    if (!validEmail(form.Email2.value)) ...

    .....

    var now = new Date()        
    var userAge = now.getFullYear() - parseInt(form.BirthYear.value);
    if (userAge <= 12) ....

}

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1) Calculateing starsign and birthstone is easy because it's consistent. But how are you calculating Chinese Animal Year Sign? It's based on the lunar calendar which does not directly coincide with western Gregorian Calendar. Say I was born on jan 9th 1977, even though charts say 1977 is Year of Snake, I'm not a snake, because the Lunar(Chinese) New Year actually fall in february something of that year, so I'm a dragon. Do you understand what I'm talking about?

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<TR>
<TD valign=top bgcolor="<% =strForumCellColor %>" colspan="<%=sGetColspan(7, 6)%>" >
<%     
today = date()
currday = day(date())  
currmonth = month(date())  
curryear = year(date()) 


strSql = "SELECT " & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.MEMBER_ID," & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.M_NAME," & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.M_HIDEAGE," & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.M_BIRTHDATE"
strSql = strSql & " FROM " & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS "
strSql = strSql & " WHERE " & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.M_BIRTHDATE LIKE '____" & currmonth & currday &"'" 
strSql = strSql & "ORDER BY (" & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS.MEMBER_ID) "

set rsBirthday = my_Conn.Execute (StrSql)

If rsBIRTHDAY.Eof OR rsBIRTHDAY.Bof Then
	response.write "<font face="& strForumCellColor &" size=" & strFooterFontSize & ">No Birthdays Today</font>" 
Else
	btoday = false
	do until rsBIRTHDAY.eof 
	strBirthdate = rsBirthday("M_BIRTHDATE")  & "000001"
	strBirthdate = strToDate (strBirthdate)
	Age = GetAge(strBirthdate)
	If rsBirthday("M_HIDEAGE") = 0 then

		if btoday = false then
			Response.Write "<font face="& strForumCellColor &" size=" & strFooterFontSize & ">Todays Birthdays: </font>"
			btoday = true
		else
			'do nothing
		end if
			response.write "<a href='pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=" & rsBIRTHDAY("Member_ID") & "'><font face="& strForumCellColor &" size=" & strFooterFontSize & ">" & rsBIRTHDAY("M_NAME") & "</a>" & "(" & age & "), </font>"
			 
	else
	'do nothing
	End if

	rsBIRTHDAY.movenext
	loop
End if

rsBIRTHDAY.close
set rsBIRTHDAY = Nothing
%> 
</TD>
</TR>

Function Date_FillBoxWithYears( nDefault )
if nDefault = "Year" then nDefault = 0
nDefault = Cint(nDefault)
Dim nYear
nDefault = Cint(nDefault)

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The lunar Calander changes each year, so you have an array that hold that info.
Eg 1.21,2.14,1.17,2.02 etc
That hold the month (1=jan,etc) and day on which the New year started. You then check to see if birthdate if before or after that date in the year, if before you use the Starsign of the previous year, etc. I read up about the 60 year cycles of branches and stems and what not.

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whoa, you actually did more research on the lunar calendar system than I did! That's sweet. Can I see your code for this? oh yeah, it's already in the mod download, what am i thinking btw thanks for Referring to it as by the (politically) correct term "Lunar" because obviously "chinese" aren't the only ones that uses it .

- Alan
www.iamviet.com
Snitz Resource

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That's ok,

It's not solar so.. erm has to be the other one... rofl

Cheers Az

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Eagles fly!, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

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You know why it's Lunar right? With the lunar calendar, every 15th of the month is a full moon! Those chinese astronomers figured it all out a few thousands of years ago and made a calendar based on it! Also the moon of the 9th month, i believe is really full and big, and is celebrated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Also did you know that the Gregorian Calendar, the current one in use in the world, is based on Solar? It can tell you of equinoxes and solstices of the sun so it's solar!

pretty fascinating how calendar and dates came about actually

- Alan
www.iamviet.com
Snitz Resource

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The lunar Calander changes each year, so you have an array that hold that info.
Eg 1.21,2.14,1.17,2.02 etc
That hold the month (1=jan,etc) and day on which the New year started. You then check to see if birthdate if before or after that date in the year, if before you use the Starsign of the previous year, etc. I read up about

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