Hey! i've finally got my batch working, and now i'm just smoothing things out. is there a way to automatically calculate the the number of days since a certain date??

Hi This Help @echo off cls if (%6)==() goto Syntax echo Date1=%1/%2/%3 call :CalcDateNo %1 %2 %3 set Date1=%Z% echo Date1 No=%Z% call :CalcDateNo: %4 %5 %6 echo Date2=%4/%5/%6 set /a Diff=%Z%-%Date1% echo Date2 No=%Z% echo Diff=%Diff% exit /b :CalcDateNo %1 %2 %3 set Day=%1 set Month=%2 set Year=%3 rem Delele Leading Zeros set Char=%Day:~0,1% if %Char%==0 set Day=%Day:~1,1% set Char=%Month:~0,1% if %Char%==0 set Month=%Month:~1,1% if %Month% LEQ 2 ( set /a Year-=1 set /a Month+=12 ) set /a Month+=1 set /a A=%Year%/100 set /a B=2-%A%+%A%/4 set /a C=36525*%Year%/100 set /a D=306001*%Month%/10000 set /a E=%Day%+1720995+%B% set /a Z=%C%+%D%+%E% exit /b :Syntax echo Enter DateCalc Day Month Year Day Month Year echo ie DateCalc 05 08 2009 05 08 2010 echo Calculate Difference between echo Date1 and Date2 echo One leading zero is accepted echo for Day and Month, Year must be echo be in full. Date not validated. exit /b