Computes the number of days between two serial Julian dates Open Office: DATEDIFF

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#include <codecogs/units/date/datediff.h>

using namespace Units::Date;

	int	dateDiff (int startDate, int endDate)[inline] Computes the number of days between two serial Julian dates Open Office: DATEDIFF
	Integer	cc_dateDiff (Integer startDate, Integer endDate) This function is available as a Microsoft Excel add-in.

Function Documentation

Returns the number of days between two serial Julian dates. Aside from adding clarity to your code, we can see few reasons for anyone to use this function directly, we only provide it for completeness against Excel. For something more involved see dateDiff360. We recommend that you make the necessary subtraction yourself, the entire function is only:

inline int dateDiff(int nDateStart, int nDateEnd)
{
  return nDateStart - nDateEnd;
}

Example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <codecogs/units/date/date.h>
using namespace Units::Date;
 
void main()
{
printf("\n Difference=%d days", dateDiff(date("12-8-2004"), date("20-8-2004")));  // Difference=8 days
}

Parameters:

startDate	and...
endDate	are serial Julian dates (see date ). The return value is signed, so if StartDate occurs before endDate then a negative answer will be returned. See date , for details on creating these numbers.

Authors:

Will Bateman (Oct 2004)