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Tracie
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I have two dates formatted mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss and I want to determine the number of hours between them. Format is hh.ssssssss. Any thoughts?


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Francis Mariani
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The following works with dates formatted yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss:

-SET &ECHO=ALL;

-SET &DTTM1X = '2008/06/01 14:56:11';
-SET &DTTM1Y = EDIT(&DTTM1X,'9999$99$99$99$99$99');
-SET &DTTM1  = HINPUT(14, '&DTTM1Y.EVAL' , 14, 'HYYMDS');

-SET &DTTM2X = '2008/07/02 11:10:38';
-SET &DTTM2Y = EDIT(&DTTM2X,'9999$99$99$99$99$99');
-SET &DTTM2  = HINPUT(14, '&DTTM2Y.EVAL' , 14, 'HYYMDS');


-SET &DIFF_H = HDIFF(&DTTM2, &DTTM1, 'HOUR', D12);
-SET &DIFF_M = HDIFF(&DTTM2, &DTTM1, 'MINUTE', D12);
-SET &DIFF_S = HDIFF(&DTTM2, &DTTM1, 'SECOND', D12);

-TYPE DIFF IN HOURS: &DIFF_H
-TYPE DIFF IN MINUTES: &DIFF_M
-TYPE DIFF IN SECONDS: &DIFF_S


EDIT is used to strip the / and : from the date-time string.
HINPUT is used to convert the date-time string to a date-time formatted value.
HDIFF is used to determine the difference between the two date-time formatted values in different units.

For some reason, I can't get this to work with dates formatted mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.


Francis


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jimster06
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HDIFF comes to mind.


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Tracie
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Thanks, the HDIFF worked beautifully.


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