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- From: skip@claris.com (Brian Schipper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Calculating "days" in FileMaker Pro
- Message-ID: <15009@claris.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 22:03:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.180842.26281@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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- srussell@cie.uoregon.edu (Steven Russell) writes:
-
- >I am trying to create a calculated field in FileMaker Pro that will
- >return the number of days since a date located in another field. For
- >example, if today is the 13th of August, I want to know how many days
- >have passed since (for example) June 27th, 1991. Is there a simple
- >way to do this? The calculation functions don't seem to lend
- >themselves well to this task, but I may not be using them properly.
- >Can anyone help me out with this?
-
- Sure. Make a calculation field that returns a number result, and make
- the calculation "Today - <datefield>", where <datefield> is the name
- of the field you are computing the number of days from.
-
- Brian
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