Re: Date anomaly
Re: Date anomaly
- Subject: Re: Date anomaly
- From: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:35:26 +0000
On 2/3/03 10:33, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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set d to "1/1/1"
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date d
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--> date "Monday, January 1, 2001 12:00:00 am"
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try
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(current date) - (date d)
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on error e
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e
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end try
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--> Can't make date "Monday, January 1, 2001 12:00:00 am" into a
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number or date.
But:
(date d) - (current date)
will work. It is almost like there is some implicit coercion if the compiler
spots "current date" earlier in the line than "date d" and tries to make a
date into a date -- which begs the question why the coercion fails if you
subtract d...
Nigel
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