Quoted text is from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by Chris 
Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>>Convert the dates to Julian (if Gentran won't do it for you, you'll
>>need to figure the calcluations on your own) and then subtract.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
>
>tells you how to do it

This thread was prophetic. Today, for the first time, I was tasked with 
dealing with an output file from a Pick system, with all dates as a day 
count from the end of 1967. The reference above proved very useful, 
although it was strangely silent about how you implement FIX and INT 
functions in an EDI scripting language whose mathematical capabilities 
start and stop with the four basic arithmetic operations on floating 
point numbers :-(   There was a way to do it.

Regards
Chris
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