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From: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?
Date: 16 Apr 2010 15:45:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85eiif6sa1.fsf@emr.cs.iit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cb7374df-268f-4bd1-be43-69f43c2ada6f@z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com

>>>>> "XL" == Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> 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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-16 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 18:23 how do you compute date difference in emacs? Xah Lee
2010-04-16 20:45 ` Edward M. Reingold [this message]
2010-04-16 20:50 ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17  0:39   ` Xah Lee
2010-04-17  4:42     ` Jason Rumney
2010-04-17  7:38       ` Xah Lee
2010-04-17  9:13         ` José A. Romero L.
2010-05-06 23:37           ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-04-17  7:19     ` David Kastrup

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