Thanks Matt, it works with the exception of midnight because that translates to 000000 so I had to fudge that to 235959 but hey what's 1 second really. It feels a little dirty but will do as a quick solution for the time being.

In case anyone else wants something like this, here is my complete solution:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
    version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
    xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib" xmlns:BlogLibrary="urn:BlogLibrary" 
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets tagsLib BlogLibrary ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="currentTime" select="number(translate(Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:time(),':',''))"/>
<xsl:variable name="midday" select="120000"/>
<xsl:variable name="evening" select="170000"/>
<xsl:variable name="midnight" select="235959"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$currentTime &gt; $midday and $currentTime &lt; $evening">
    Good Afternoon
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$currentTime &gt; $evening and $currentTime &lt; $midnight">
    Good evening
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
    Good Morning
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hi Simon, I would go for the date-comparison functions in the umbraco.library, e.g. DateGreaterThanToday

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbracolibrary

Tommy

Hi Tommy,

You could use DateGreaterThan or DateGreaterThanOrEqual (I wouldn't use DateGreaterThanToday, as it only does a day based comparison, not time which simon is after), but I didn't go that route as it sounded like he wanted a pure XSLT suggestion, but yea, definatley one to concider if you are wanting to do the same.

Matt

Hi Matt, sure - good point, if you need the time as well you have to use one of the other functions. But I would at any time prefer one of the standard extension methods over trying to parse the number yourself, relying on specific date/time format etc.

>Tommy

I think in this case where the time is not an input it is probably ok but if the time comparison was a value being passed in then I agree it's not really a safe option.

I think we more or less all agree ;-)

This also seems to work

<xsl:variable name="hours" select="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:hourinday()"/>
<xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="$hours &gt; 00 and $hours &lt; 04">
     <xsl:text>Time for bed</xsl:text>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
     <xsl:text>Not bedtime yet</xsl:text>
  </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Dan

Oooooh, thats a nice one.

Thanks, Simon, it helped me a lot!

Great, please make sure you vote for any posts you find helpful.

Simon

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