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minos4
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I was just calculating de difference between two dates when I got some error message:

The codes I input:
DEFINE FILE WHATEVER
-*some other fields
DATERANGE/I8 = DATEDIF(PROJECT_DATE, &YYMD, 'D', 'I8');
END
-*(PROJECT_DATE is a timestamp field in WHATEVER)

Then I got this:
(FOC275) FOCUS FUNCTION HAS INCORRECT NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS: ;

I tried also with COMPUTE command:
COMPUTE DATERANGE/I8 = DATEDIF(PROJECT_DATE, &YYMD, 'D', 'I8');

Then I got this:
(FOC259) FIELDNAME EXCEEDS ITS MAXIMUM SIZE: COMPUTE DATERANGE

I'm using 764 with WIN XP

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Is it the problem with timestamp or do I ALWAYS have to convert date type if the date types of two dates are not identical before DATEDIF calculation?

Are unidentical date types nonp-comparable?


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Is there a way to transfer timestamp to only dates format?


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I tried SQL translation, but can only convert to I8YYMD, to YYMD is impossible, but I8YYMD cannot be compared with YYMD either! So the format is still useless.


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Try this:
-DEFAULT &YYMD = 20080101 ; (just to be sure you have a value for this parameter)

DEFINE ...
DATERANGE/I8 = DATEDIF(PROJECT_DATE, &YYMD.EVAL, 'D');
END

If this doesn't work, convert you datatimestamp to an I8 interger and use this field instead of PROJECT_DATE in the DATEDIF syntax.


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Hi minos4...

The reason for getting the error is because you are trying to give 4 arguments where DATEDIF take only 3 arguments ..

Try this:

tod/YMD=HDATE((HGETC(10,'HYMDH')), 'YYMD');
DIF/I5=DATEDIF(HIREDATE, tod, 'Y');
 
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Another issue is that you are not feeding parameters of the proper type to your functions. DATEDIF only uses DATE fields - it cannot use a DATETIME field. HDIFF is available for datetime stamps. The comparison must use values of like type so one or the other must be converted.


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Darin


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the HDATE command doesn't work out for me. I don't know why, just can't transfer HYYMDm into YYMD.
Finally I used HGETC to express current time into HYYMDm format so that the two formats match. Then I used HDIFF to calculate 'DAY' differences. This works.


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