From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how do you compute date difference in emacs? Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273061413 14845 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 12:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:10:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 14:10:10 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 1O9dQX-0007V9-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:10:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dQW-0001lG-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:10:08 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1271442195 12135 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2010 18:23:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1045 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177723 comp.emacs:99744 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:54:25 -0400 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:73408 Archived-At: computing dates. Recently i needed to compute dates in emacs. For example, i need to find out: 2010-04-16 - 215 days. how you do it in emacs? (i know various langs that have date libs... but i just need a convenient one time use in emacs) Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84