Counting days from a past date

[Bob Sneidar]

Sarah Reichelt has a DateTime stack which can convert to Julian at:

http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks

I haven't tried it but you might want to give that a shot too. 

Bob


On May 8, 2012, at 1:32 PM, dfepstein at comcast.net wrote:

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> I want to count the number of days between some past date and today. 
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> I tried this (using Rev 3.0): 
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> on mouseUp 
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>   put "March 12, 2012" into a 
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>   convert a to seconds -- LC should understand this as midnight 
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>   get the date 
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>   convert it to seconds -- should also be midnight 
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>   put (it - a)/(24*3600) -- elapsed seconds divided by seconds per day 
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> end mouseUp 
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> This yields "57", which seems right. 
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> But if I change the first line to 
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>   
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>   put "March 11, 2012" into a 
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> the result is not an integer: 
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> 57.958333 
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> Why would that be? 
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> David Epstein 
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