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Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?
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José A . Romero L . |
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Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs? |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:49 -0000 |
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On 16 Kwi, 20:23, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> computing dates.
>
> Recently i needed to compute dates in emacs.
>
> For example, i need to find out:
> 2010-04-16 - 215 days.
(...)
Something like this should do the job:
(format-time-string
"%Y-%m-%d"
(time-subtract (date-to-time "2010-04-16 00:00") (days-to-time 215)))
Notice that you *must* specify at least hour and minute (e.g. 00:00)
in order
for the date string to be parseable.
Have a look at time-date.el for some useful time-related functions.
Cheers,
--
José A. Romero L.
escherdragon at gmail
"We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
(Quarry worker's creed)
- how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Xah Lee, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Edward M. Reingold, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?,
José A . Romero L . <=
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Xah Lee, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Jason Rumney, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Xah Lee, 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, José A . Romero L ., 2010/05/04
- Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?, Kevin Rodgers, 2010/05/06