Sarah Reichelt has a DateTime stack which can convert to Julian at: http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks
I haven't tried it but you might want to give that a shot too. Bob On May 8, 2012, at 1:32 PM, dfepst...@comcast.net wrote: > > > > I want to count the number of days between some past date and today. > > I tried this (using Rev 3.0): > > > > on mouseUp > > put "March 12, 2012" into a > > convert a to seconds -- LC should understand this as midnight > > get the date > > convert it to seconds -- should also be midnight > > put (it - a)/(24*3600) -- elapsed seconds divided by seconds per day > > end mouseUp > > > > This yields "57", which seems right. > > > > But if I change the first line to > > > > put "March 11, 2012" into a > > > > the result is not an integer: > > 57.958333 > > > > Why would that be? > > > > David Epstein > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
