James Blaha wrote:
>
> Is below the best and only way to easily find out how many days are
> between 2 dates? Im writing a template for a file backup where files
> that are older then 5 day will be deleted and Im not sure what the
> easiest best practice approach would be for the days check.
>
> <cfoutput>#Abs("#DateDiff("d","6/3/03","#DateFormat(NOW(),
> "M/D/YY")#")#")#</cfoutput>
6/3/03 is ambiguous, use a format of yyyy-mm-dd. You have way to many
quotes and ##'s. And you don't need to DateFormat() the Now():
#Abs(DateDiff("d", "2003-03-06", Now()))#
Jochem
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