> How do I subtract the difference of months between two dates?
> 
> For instance, if one date is 2003-12 and the other is 2002-08, I need
to
> know that there are 16 months between them. If one date is 2003-04 and
the
> other is 2003-01, I need to know that there are 3 months between them.
How
> can I do this?

One way...

$date1 = "2003-12";
$date2 = "2002-08";

$d1 = explode('-',$date1);
$d2 = explode('-',$date2);

$diff = ($d1[0]*12+$d1[1]) - ($d2[0]*12+$d2[1]);

---John W. Holmes...

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