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Subject: Re: Days between dates
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Chry Cheng <chrycheng@gmail.com> writes:

> How does one calculate the no. of days between two dates in Elisp?  So
> far, I have the following:
>
> (decode-time (time-subtract (date-to-time "...") (date-to-time
> "...")))
>
> But decode-time returns dates.  I was wondering if there already is a
> function somewhere unknown to me that would do this.

I have a function named days-between
in emacs-version "22.2.1"


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