从导入日期来自电子表格创建Google日历事件时出现setHours（）错误 - Apps脚本

Question

I have a form that requests an event title and start time from a user. Then inserts the information into a Google Spreadsheet. I wrote a script that imports this information into Google Calendar. However, I want every entered event to have an end time 2 hours later than the start time. Is there an easy way to do this? Here is what I have so far.

var title = column[3];
var startDate = column[5];        // 5th column in spreadsheet "Start Date and Time"

cal1.createEvent(title, new Date(startDate), new Date(startDate.setHours(startDate.getHours() + 2));

I am getting the error:

TypeError: Cannot find function sethours in object Fri Feb 27 2015 08:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST

Answer 1

The value being returned from your spreadsheet for startDate is not being coerced into a date type. You'll need to use new Date() on it to make it a date:

var startDate = column[5];        // 5th column in spreadsheet "Start Date and Time"
startDate = new Date(startDate);

Here is a test function that I ran, with some changes to the code:

function testIt() {

  var title = column[3];
  var startDate = column[5];        // 5th column in spreadsheet "Start Date and Time"

  startDate = new Date(startDate);
  var startHr = startDate.getHours();

  var eventEndTime = new Date(startDate);
  eventEndTime.setHours(startHr + 2);

  cal1.createEvent(title, startDate, eventEndTime);
};