<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ozWWsLO25j8/Vc8HjJQDDTI/AAAAAAAAAWY/aKAqTYCKOOo/s1600/%2521yikes%2521.png> Good morning, .. and
I expected that would work .. that the period operators would cooperate differently. You deserve a more satisying introduction to "basic stuff with time intervals. --- You want time differences to just work so you can do the same. I agree. On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2:46:04 AM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > Ian -- > > "I can imagine a long-winded solution where the relevant time units are > extracted and differenced, but I was hoping for simpler.." -- as you > should! > > When I saw you use Hour in the first example, I thought you were doing > some thing where hour counts were the focus ... (I will prepare a more > fully helpful example). > > > > > On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2:21:04 AM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: >> >> well that's accurate -- I was not trying to make them nefarious, I >> mistook the emphasis. >> I will come back with a more fully driveable example in about 15mins. >> >> On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 7:41:04 PM UTC-4, Ian Butterworth wrote: >>> >>> Trying to get the number of hours between these two dates (ideally "x >>> hours and y minutes"), but can't figure out how to convert the duration >>> variable into hours. The bottom line currently errors >>> >>> timein = "2015/8/13 10:19:50" >>> timein2 = "2015/8/14 13:12:34" >>> >>> time_series[1] = DateTime(timein,"yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS") >>> time_series[2] = DateTime(timein2,"yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS") >>> >>> duration = time_series[2]-time_series[1] >>> Dates.Hour(duration) >>> >>
