Hi Bo
It's optimized but is incorrect.
The difference between two "dates" gives just the difference between the
"days".
Regards
At 05:02 p.m. 28/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>While we're on the subject of optimization, how about this?
>
>now - 1-1-1970 * 86400
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>Have fun!
>
>
>On 28-Oct-1999/19:0
> While we're on the subject of optimization, how about this?
>
> now - 1-1-1970 * 86400
>
Elegant, except it's one day off ... should be now - 12-31-1969 * 86400,
except that gives an invalid date.
So, you could do:
now - 1-1-1970 * 86400 + {{+ 86400 - however many seconds of this day has
el
> date: now
> seconds: ((date - 1-1-1970) * 86400) + (date/time/hour * 3600) +
> (date/time/minute * 60) + date/time/second
>
Gabriele has the closest solution yet, but it's still 4 hours short. I'm
thinking, I'm thinking.
--Ralph
I'm off four hours using Gabriele's solution... could this be the difference
between my time zone and GMT? If so, just adding 4 hours gives me the
correct answer?
--Ralph
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