At 10:03 -0500 on 06/12/2015, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: STCK question:
> I can calculate the date difference by hand (in C based off of
the character representation of the date) of course. Unless someone
knows of a nifty method to get the elapsed number of days from the
data that I have?
Janet
1972/01/03
- 1972/01/01
= 0000/00/02
How are you going to do the math? Also once the span goes over 31
days (ie: You get a February date) it gets complicated. In a prior
message I suggested converting to a Julian date (YYYYDDD) which would
handle a 366 day span.
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