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Joe Philip

2004-04-28, 8:35 am

Can someone point to me where to look for a script which calculates the
differences between two dates (for example, Jan 1, 1970 and today's date).


Gnarlodious

2004-04-28, 9:34 am

Entity Joe Philip spoke thus:

> Can someone point to me where to look for a script which calculates the
> differences between two dates (for example, Jan 1, 1970 and today's date).

Incredibly, we just had a huge discussion of that right here! Search for
keywords like "date" and "time".

-- Gnarlie

Ed Morton

2004-04-28, 10:34 am



Gnarlodious wrote:

> Entity Joe Philip spoke thus:
>
>
>
> Incredibly, we just had a huge discussion of that right here! Search for
> keywords like "date" and "time".


"epoch" seems to be a biggie too. Also check out question 6 in the FAQ:

http://www.newsville.com/cgi-bin/ge...Asked_Questions

Ed.

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