Number of days between 2 dates

[John Dixon]

This seems to work...

on mouseUp
   put the short date into dayNow
   convert dayNow to seconds
   put dayNow into startCalc
   convert dayNow to dateItems
   put item 1 of dayNow into theYear
   
   put "01/01/" & theYear into theYearStart
   convert theYearStart to seconds
   put theYearStart into endCalc
   
   put startCalc - endCalc into tempCalc
   put trunc(tempCalc/86400)
end mouseUp

> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:45:48 +0200
> From: m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Number of days between 2 dates
> 
> Hi Jbv,
> 
> This subject has been discussed very frequently. You may want to search 
> the archives for a solution.
> 
> Probably, all will work fine if you take 12:00 instead of 00:00. DST may 
> be the culprit.
> 
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> On 4/16/2014 18:25, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I need to calculate the number of days between any date and
> > january 1st of the same year.
> > So I tried this :
> >     put "1/31/14" && "0:00 AM" into tdate
> >     convert tdate to long seconds
> >     put "1/1/14" && "0:00 AM" into date0
> >     convert date0 to long seconds
> >     put (tdate - date0)/86400
> >
> > which seems to work and returns an integer.
> > When I try this as 1st line of my script :
> >     put "3/30/14" && "0:00 AM" into tdate
> > it still works (returns 88).
> >
> > And suddenly, the following :
> >     put "3/31/14" && "0:00 AM" into tdate
> > returns 88.958333
> >
> > Any idea ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jbv
> >
> >
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