Glad to hear it. Yeah, I meant to say "day" but we use "month" here so...
Regards, Chuck On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:05 AM, William Rentfrow <wrentf...@stratacominc.com> wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"