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From: Chry Cheng <chrycheng@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Days between dates
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:04:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d42602bb-1c29-4f75-b600-d95ac872a766@1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bpxs2q5q.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com

On Oct 11, 3:42 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Chry Cheng <chrych...@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"
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                    http://www.informatimago.com/
>
> PLEASE NOTE: Some quantum physics theories suggest that when the
> consumer is not directly observing this product, it may cease to
> exist or will exist only in a vague and undetermined state.

Got it.  Thanks!


      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-11  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10 17:52 Days between dates Chry Cheng
2008-10-10 19:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-11  9:04   ` Chry Cheng [this message]

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