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Re: datetime functions

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowg?r?com> Apr 25, 2008
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ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Phew, having difficulty keeping up.
> 
> Can I take a date string, (24/05/2008), add 47 days, and get a date string
> back?
> 
> Note the UK localisation!
> 

Chris,

There are two skeleton functions (no code yet). format and parse. You will have
to do something like:

datetime dt
dt = d:parse(date, "%d/%m/%Y")
dt = d:add(dt, 47, DAYS)
puts(1, d:format(dt, "%d/%m/%Y")

Of course, you could create constants for the date/time format.

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Jeremy Cowgar
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