Ian -- "I can imagine a long-winded solution where the relevant time units are extracted and differenced, but I was hoping for simpler.." -- as you should!
When I saw you use Hour in the first example, I thought you were doing some thing where hour counts were the focus ... (I will prepare a more fully helpful example). On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2:21:04 AM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > well that's accurate -- I was not trying to make them nefarious, I mistook > the emphasis. > I will come back with a more fully driveable example in about 15mins. > > On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 7:41:04 PM UTC-4, Ian Butterworth wrote: >> >> Trying to get the number of hours between these two dates (ideally "x >> hours and y minutes"), but can't figure out how to convert the duration >> variable into hours. The bottom line currently errors >> >> timein = "2015/8/13 10:19:50" >> timein2 = "2015/8/14 13:12:34" >> >> time_series[1] = DateTime(timein,"yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS") >> time_series[2] = DateTime(timein2,"yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS") >> >> duration = time_series[2]-time_series[1] >> Dates.Hour(duration) >> >
