From: jfriedberg@mycomcast.com
:-)
"Liz McGuire" wrote in message
news:45d108e9$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
> Jeanette wrote:
> > You're OK, I undersood what you said, I BELIEVE.
> >
> > Even though I know the ASSUME THEORY I ASSUMED the # would be the actual
> > # of days like 12/31/05-1/1/05 would be 365 and not 364.
> >
> > I guess I am being too wordy. Are there any SPECIFIC rules regarding
the
> > arithmentic of Dates? I'm looking for some rules about when a date
range
> > will be INCLUSIVE.
> >
> > It seems like:
> > a) 02/1/06-1/15/06 is INCLUSIVE (17)
> > b) 12/31/05-9/15/05 is INCLUSIVE (107)
> > BUT
> > c) 10/1/06-1/1/06 is NOT INCLUSIVE (9)
> >
> > I don't understand why a&b are INCLUSIVE and c is NOT...
> >
> > SORRY - maybe it's in my face and I just don't see it !
>
> Jeanette,
>
> If you include both the 15th and the 1st, a) is 18; b) if you include
> both the 15th and the 31st is 108; and c) seems to use a different date
> format (october 1 to january 1, 9 days, huh?) - or, it's january 10:
>
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 - ten days, inclusive.
>
> What you're doing is subtracting the low date from the high date and in
> all cases, the low date is excluded, just like when you subtract 1 from
> 10 the 1 is excluded. All of those behave the same way - all are NOT
> inclusive of the first day.
>
> Get a calendar - a printed one - manually count the first day in the
> range as 1 and each day up through the last day. If you include both
> the first and last days, you'll find that all of those numbers below
> exclude the start date.
>
> Or:
> a)
> 1 15 Jan 2006
> 2 16 Jan 2006
> 3 17 Jan 2006
> 4 18 Jan 2006
> 5 19 Jan 2006
> 6 20 Jan 2006
> 7 21 Jan 2006
> 8 22 Jan 2006
> 9 23 Jan 2006
> 10 24 Jan 2006
> 11 25 Jan 2006
> 12 26 Jan 2006
> 13 27 Jan 2006
> 14 28 Jan 2006
> 15 29 Jan 2006
> 16 30 Jan 2006
> 17 31 Jan 2006
> 18 01 Feb 2006
>
> b)
> 1 15 Sep 2005
> 2 16 Sep 2005
> 3 17 Sep 2005
> 4 18 Sep 2005
> 5 19 Sep 2005
> 6 20 Sep 2005
> 7 21 Sep 2005
> 8 22 Sep 2005
> 9 23 Sep 2005
> 10 24 Sep 2005
> 11 25 Sep 2005
> 12 26 Sep 2005
> 13 27 Sep 2005
> 14 28 Sep 2005
> 15 29 Sep 2005
> 16 30 Sep 2005
> 17 01 Oct 2005
> 18 02 Oct 2005
> 19 03 Oct 2005
> 20 04 Oct 2005
> 21 05 Oct 2005
> 22 06 Oct 2005
> 23 07 Oct 2005
> 24 08 Oct 2005
> 25 09 Oct 2005
> 26 10 Oct 2005
> 27 11 Oct 2005
> 28 12 Oct 2005
> 29 13 Oct 2005
> 30 14 Oct 2005
> 31 15 Oct 2005
> 32 16 Oct 2005
> 33 17 Oct 2005
> 34 18 Oct 2005
> 35 19 Oct 2005
> 36 20 Oct 2005
> 37 21 Oct 2005
> 38 22 Oct 2005
> 39 23 Oct 2005
> 40 24 Oct 2005
> 41 25 Oct 2005
> 42 26 Oct 2005
> 43 27 Oct 2005
> 44 28 Oct 2005
> 45 29 Oct 2005
> 46 30 Oct 2005
> 47 31 Oct 2005
> 48 01 Nov 2005
> 49 02 Nov 2005
> 50 03 Nov 2005
> 51 04 Nov 2005
> 52 05 Nov 2005
> 53 06 Nov 2005
> 54 07 Nov 2005
> 55 08 Nov 2005
> 56 09 Nov 2005
> 57 10 Nov 2005
> 58 11 Nov 2005
> 59 12 Nov 2005
> 60 13 Nov 2005
> 61 14 Nov 2005
> 62 15 Nov 2005
> 63 16 Nov 2005
> 64 17 Nov 2005
> 65 18 Nov 2005
> 66 19 Nov 2005
> 67 20 Nov 2005
> 68 21 Nov 2005
> 69 22 Nov 2005
> 70 23 Nov 2005
> 71 24 Nov 2005
> 72 25 Nov 2005
> 73 26 Nov 2005
> 74 27 Nov 2005
> 75 28 Nov 2005
> 76 29 Nov 2005
> 77 30 Nov 2005
> 78 01 Dec 2005
> 79 02 Dec 2005
> 80 03 Dec 2005
> 81 04 Dec 2005
> 82 05 Dec 2005
> 83 06 Dec 2005
> 84 07 Dec 2005
> 85 08 Dec 2005
> 86 09 Dec 2005
> 87 10 Dec 2005
> 88 11 Dec 2005
> 89 12 Dec 2005
> 90 13 Dec 2005
> 91 14 Dec 2005
> 92 15 Dec 2005
> 93 16 Dec 2005
> 94 17 Dec 2005
> 95 18 Dec 2005
> 96 19 Dec 2005
> 97 20 Dec 2005
> 98 21 Dec 2005
> 99 22 Dec 2005
> 100 23 Dec 2005
> 101 24 Dec 2005
> 102 25 Dec 2005
> 103 26 Dec 2005
> 104 27 Dec 2005
> 105 28 Dec 2005
> 106 29 Dec 2005
> 107 30 Dec 2005
> 108 31 Dec 2005
>
> c)
> 1 01 Jan 2006
> 2 02 Jan 2006
> 3 03 Jan 2006
> 4 04 Jan 2006
> 5 05 Jan 2006
> 6 06 Jan 2006
> 7 07 Jan 2006
> 8 08 Jan 2006
> 9 09 Jan 2006
> 10 10 Jan 2006
>
>
>
> Liz
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