CONVTOD is the ticket. -- Jim Connelley
--- On Wed, 1/4/12, Shane <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Shane <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Calculate elapsed time from MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS formats > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 9:20 PM > In another world, you could simply > use the date command to do similar > (convert to seconds from epoch and subtract). KISS. > Maybe LE (of which I know not much at all) has something > similar. > > I'm sure Steve will bob up with a course that has this as > part of the > curriculum .... ;-) > > Shane ... > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:21:51 -0500 Brian Westerman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a module that I created many years ago that > computes the > > number of days between two dates, but I have been > asked if there is a > > way to expand it to compute the total time between the > two dates as > > well (if supplied with the HH:MM:SS as well). > > > > In the past I have always calculated elapsed time via > starting with > > the STCK times, subtracting them and then converting > them to a > > readable format, but in this case I have the fields > already as > > start-MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS end-MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS. >
