EASY way to add n days to a date?

[Jacques Hausser]

 Jim

Afterthough: for details about options, look at "convert" and "date" in the dictionary !

Jacques

Le 20 déc. 2009 à 00:35, Jacques Hausser a écrit :

> 
> Le 20 déc. 2009 à 00:20, James Hurley a écrit :
> 
>> In FileMaker it is possible to add n (an integer) to a date to get a new date n days hence.
>> 
>> Is there an EASY way to do this in Rev? (I don't mean setting the idemdel to "/" and fussing with the day/month/year digits.)
>> 
> 
> 
> Something like:
> 
> function addDays mydate,ndays
>   convert mydate [from short system date] to seconds
>   add ndays * 86400 to mydate
>   convert mydate from seconds to [short, abbreviated...] system date
>   return mydate
> end addDays
> 
> Jacques
> 
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University of Lausanne
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please use my private address:
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CH-1269 Bassins
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