Re: Number of days left in the month
Re: Number of days left in the month
- Subject: Re: Number of days left in the month
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:21:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: Number of days left in the month
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:46:13 +0000
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From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
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> Emmanuel also wrote on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:56:51 +0100:
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>> tell theDate to 32 - (((date ("1 " & its month & " " & its year)) +
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>> 31 * days)'s day) returning x
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> Or, about twice as fast (on my machines):
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> tell (date (theDate's date string)) to 32 - ((it + (32 - (its day)) *
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> days)'s day) returning x
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Emmanuel will immediately have spotted (as will Arthur, has, etc.) that
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the string's a complete waste of time in my version, so:
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tell theDate to 32 - ((it + (32 - (its day)) * days)'s day) returning x
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... which is very much faster still. :-)
Alright, the pressure is on: One of you two should be able to get this
down to exactly 7 characters of source code...
;-)
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