Date calculations
Shao Sean
shaosean at unitz.ca
Tue Jul 15 17:42:00 EDT 2003
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-- holds the date that was in the text field "LMP"
local tLMP
-- put the text from field "LMP" into our variable
put the text of field "LMP" into tLMP
-- convert the date to dateItems (look at the 'convert'
entry in the docs)
convert tLMP from short system date to dateItems
-- add 288 days to the date we previously had (yes, it'll
adjust itself correctly)
add 288 to item 3 of tLMP
-- convert back from dateItems to normal date format
convert tLMP from dateItems to system date
-- display the EDD date
put tLMP into field "EDD"
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