The suggestion below actually worked - except I changed it to this: DATEADD("day",-10,$My Date$)
William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. wrentf...@stratacominc.com Blog: www.williamrentfrow.com O 715-592-5185 C 715-410-8056 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Charles Baldi Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Weird DST date calculation issue William, If you use the dateadd() function do you get a different result? E.g., dateadd("month", -10, date($My Date$)) Regards, Chuck Baldi On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, William Rentfrow <wrentf...@stratacominc.com> wrote: > ** > > Fortunately this issue SHOULD be very straight forward. > > Unfortunately - it isn't. > > There's a button that calculates a person's period of eligibility to > make changes to their HR benefits, etc. You enter their employment > anniversary date and hit the button and this performs a calculation: > > $My Date$ - 864000 (i.e., minus 10 days). > > Here's the interesting thing - when the date entered is Daylight > savings time - 3/15 this spring - the calculated value for the date > time field returns 3/4/2010 11:00:00 PM. Normally all of the times in > this date/time field are left at 12:00:00 AM and are unused. > > Technically speaking the calculation is EXACTLY correct. 3/4/2010 > 11:00:00 PM is exactly 10 days before 3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM - because > 3/15 has an "extra" hour added that is a figment of our collective > imagination. > Technically DST doesn't happen until 2:00 AM though but that's a > matter for another time. > > I was thinking about changing the times on these to default to 3:00:00 > AM instead of 12:00:00 AM - but I'm open to suggestions. > > William Rentfrow > Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. > wrentf...@stratacominc.com > Blog: www.williamrentfrow.com > O 715-592-5185 > C 715-410-8056 > > _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the > Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"