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how to calculate days between dates
Name: unixgirl Date: April 3, 2007 at 10:20:24 Pacific OS: Unix AIX CPU/Ram: 512 Product: IBM
Comment:
I have two dates and I'd like to find how many days between these two dates? Ex: 04/03/07 - 03/31/07 should be 4 days! Thanks
Name: wollie Date: April 3, 2007 at 14:06:58 Pacific
Reply:
Hi unixgirl,
presently no other clue than to transform the dates: "daysofmonthspassed" + days (easy as long as in the same year, a bit more tricky to reflect leap years and dates covering different years)
sorry for the bad news
Wollie
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Response Number 2
Name: nails Date: April 3, 2007 at 14:35:18 Pacific
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We've discuss unix date arithmetic a lot in this forum. Take a look at:
Name: unixgirl Date: April 4, 2007 at 12:14:34 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Nails. I've actually took time to browse thru forum and found one of your response to 'uribo' on get_JD() function. I've used it and it worked on my script. Thanks again. UnixGirl
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Response Number 4
Name: nails Date: April 4, 2007 at 13:25:38 Pacific
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