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|    Liz McGuire to Jim Hargan    |
|    Re: PLEASE HELP with CALC for MIN & MAX    |
|    12 Feb 07 18:09:05    |
      From: liz@paradoxcommunity.com              Actually, 01 Jan 0000 is day 0, or maybe day 1, I'm not sure. Rick's       articles would probably answer this.              Liz                     Jim Hargan wrote:       >       > IIUC, Paradox does *not* do anything special with dates. It just converts       > them to integers, and performs normal integer arithmetic. It counts (I       > think) 30 Dec 1899 as Day 0, then every succeeding day gets the next       > integer. So, if you subtract:       > 3 Jan 1900 - 31 Dec 1899       > Paradox converts this to       > 4 - 1 (the 4th day after 30 Dec 1899, minus the 1st day after)       > and returns 3.       >       > HTH       >       > Jim Hargan              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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