Well you're going to need to do it in parts, right, so given the dates in your example,
1/1/2007 - 2/9/2008 returns 1 year, 1 month & 8 days So ... startdate = "1/1/2007"; enddate = "2/9/2008"; days = datediff("d",startdate,enddate); years = int(days / 365); months = int(days / 30) - (12 * years); days = days mod 30; should get you started. hth, ike -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 503.236.3691 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4