Do you have zero set on in the 7.x database?
SET ZERO ON
This forces R:Base to treat nulls as zeros when calculating.

--- Nielsen Midge D Contr 388 RANS/JT3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a database that I am converting to 7.x from 6.5++.  I let the user
> input utilization times if a mission is complete.  If they insert a
> utilization start time, but not a utilization stop time or vise versa, the
> remaining time is inserted as a null value.
> 
> I compute the utilized hours by the following formula, so that the number of
> hours is always positive.
> 
> Util_hr =
> (IFLT((UTIL_STOP-UTIL_START),0,(((UTIL_STOP-UTIL_START)+86400)/3600),(UTIL_S
> TOP-UTIL_START)/3600))
> 
> R:Base 6.5++ looks at the missing time and assumes it is 2400 hours, which
> is correct.  R:Base 7.x looks at the time as null and does not compute a
> utilized hour.
> 
> Can anyone help me figure out how to get it to compute the utilized hours?
> 
> 


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