From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs? Date: 16 Apr 2010 15:45:10 -0500 Organization: Usenet @ UIUC - http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/news/ Message-ID: <85eiif6sa1.fsf@emr.cs.iit.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273007676 13547 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 21:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:14:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 23:14:35 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9PRq-0007o6-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 23:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9PRp-0007Xa-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 17:14:34 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.acm.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: emr.cs.iit.edu Original-X-Trace: news.acm.uiuc.edu 1271450718 25285 216.47.142.126 (16 Apr 2010 20:45:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@acm.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:45:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177726 comp.emacs:99745 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73174 Archived-At: >>>>> "XL" == Xah Lee writes: XL> computing dates. Recently i needed to compute dates in emacs. XL> For example, i need to find out: 2010-04-16 - 215 days. XL> how you do it in emacs? (i know various langs that have date XL> libs... but i just need a convenient one time use in emacs) Use the calendar mode. -- Professor Edward M. Reingold Email: reingold@iit.edu Department of Computer Science Voice: (312) 567-3309 Illinois Institute of Technology Fax: (312) 567-5067 Stuart Building, 228F 10 West 31st Street Chicago, IL 60616-3729 U.S.A.